America's case for war is built on blindness, hypocrisy and lies

"My Israeli colleague Amira Haas once defined to me our job as journalists: 'to monitor the centres of power,'" writes Robert Fisk. "Never has it been so important for us to do just that. For if we fail, we will become the mouthpiece of power. So a few thoughts for the coming weeks: remember the days when Saddam was America's friend; remember that Arabs committed the crimes against humanity of 11 September last year and that they came from a place called the Middle East, a place of injustice and occupation and torture; remember 'Palestine'; remember that, a year ago, no one spoke of Iraq, only of al-Qa'ida and Osama bin Laden. And, I suppose, remember that 'evil' is a good crowd-puller but a mighty hard enemy to shoot down with a missile."