The Bush Administration repeats that it doesn't need allies', Congress', or the American people's consent to spend tens of billions of dollars (and perhaps thousands of U.S. soldiers' lives) to overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The U.S. must hurry, Vice President Cheney told reporters, in order to topple Iraq before turning to the threat cited in this article from the Weekly World News: "Communism-crazed leaders in Red China have embarked on a bizarre new plan to invade America — by digging a tunnel through the center of the Earth! A U.S. intelligence source claims the top-secret project is well under way and that Chinese tunnel rats have already dug nearly 20 miles beneath the Earth’s surface. 'If all goes according to plan, within six years they’ll break through on the other side, we believe somewhere in Oklahoma, around the Bartlesville area,' reveals the high-level source at the National Security Agency. 'Roughly 500 million bloodthirsty, screaming Chinese troops will come pouring out of that hole — hell-bent on a bold mission to conquer the United States, reduce our people to slavery, and seize all our women.'"
Seriously, Nicholas D. Kristof has a good column in today's N.Y. Times explaining what is and isn't a case for invading Iraq (and why pragmatism keeps the U.S. from attempting to overthrow arguably worse threats such as North Korea, just as oil keeps us sucking up to the proven terrorist backers of Saudi Arabia). And Paul Krugman nails our unelected leaders' raze-the-forests policy in particular and almost self-parodying, knee-jerk fatcat windfalling in general: "Wouldn't it be nice if just once, on some issue, the Bush administration came up with a plan that didn't involve weakened environmental protection, financial breaks for wealthy individuals and corporations, and reduced public oversight?"
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