The British press carried reports today that the country's attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, had advised Mr. Blair that while a war undertaken on the basis of past United Nations resolutions was legal, a negative vote in the Security Council on the new resolution would cast its legality in doubt. NY Times
The end of the endgame and the beginning of a new era of pre-emptive warfare. "An editorial in Monday's editions of the center-right daily Le Figaro warned, 'The Americans will not be the first invaders to think they are liberators.'"

Imagine if the FBI were going around to churches collecting membership lists?

First, the FBI wanted a count of all the mosques in their regional field offices. Now, according to the Islamic Society of Frederick, Md., FBI agents who recently requested a meeting with their leadership "mentioned casually" they would be asking for a list of the society’s members. Atrios