IT'S IN THE CARDS
It seems that friends and foe alike are spoofing the Iraq playing cards.
A Russian newspaper can't keep enough in stock of the deck featuring the Bush royal family. It includes Bush as the Jack of Hearts, Laura Bush as the Queen of Hearts and National Security Advisor Condolezza Rice as the Queen of Diamonds. The pack contains 36 cards, the number of cards in a traditional Russian deck, and each suit has a particular meaning. The hearts are called the 'family' and feature the Bush family and their trusted friends."

A notoriously idiotic Frenchman's version of the cards is less Bush-friendly. "'I found it completely indecent to present a manhunt as a game,' said Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck. 'We thought this card game would allow us to ... explain why we consider the government of George Bush a threat to international security.' "
(CHANNELNEWS ASIA AND CNN, Illustration from ChannelNews Asia)

ANNAN CHALLENGES US POLICY
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan warned President Bush Tuesday that his doctrine of pre-emptive military intervention posed a fundamental challenge to the United Nations and could lead to the law of the jungle.
(FINDLAW)

BUSH UN SPEECH A BOMB
"The invasion of Iraq, to them, remained a dangerous act of unilateralism now beset by intractable problems."
(NYT)

JUSTICE CONCEPTS IN THE YEAR 2003:
CLERIC ARRESTED BECAUSE HE MIGHT HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG
"Investigators are looking into the possibility that he was sympathetic to prisoners there and was preparing to aid them in some undetermined way. 'That's the fear and the suspicion that the Army is pursuing,' the second law enforcement official said."
(NYT)