The contempt shown by the present American Administration towards other nations is not typical of Americans. After all America is a country of people of diverse origins who came to this continent seeking peace and harmony and the opportunity to raise their families in safety and freedom. They did not seek a country which would  use force to have other sovereign nations follow their creeds. I do not believe they will condone the actions of this cabal of zealots.

 I am a Canadian but I do have more than just a slight knowledge of the character and mind set of the Far Right Wing. I spent several years debating  many of the more radical element  of the Republican Party some years ago. They frightened me then. They frighten me even more now. They are, I believe, a danger to all of us in the Free World.   They have finally succeeded in silencing the moderate wing of their party and are well on the way to  realizing their stated objectives. Do not underestimate these people ! I truly believe they will stop at nothing  in their lust for power. One only has to reflect on the events of the past few years to realize  their agenda is contrary to everything  which Freedom and Democracy represent.

Their victims do not only include  those who would destroy  our way of life.  The people of their own country who have always  cherished  Free Speech now are branded traitors if they dare to dissent. God help anyone who opposes them as evidenced most recently by the endangerment of the life of  a CIA operative  in retaliation for her husband's  courage in speaking out  against the policies of this administration. The electoral process is now threatened as evidenced by the 2000 election and more recently in California.  The U.S. Constitution is being ignored and compromised.They have lied, and continue to lie, to  the American people as they use the peoples' fear of the terrorists to gain  support for their actions. They will stop at nothing and if  power is not taken away from them they will destroy democracy.

 The article below was written in March of 2003 and says it all. It should be a wake up call to all  Americans who revere the U.S. Constitution and their Country. As a citizen of the Free World I can only pray it is not too late. The fate of every man, woman and child everywhere who believes in democracy and freedom  is in your hands.

As the U.S. edges closer to war with Iraq, some are wondering whether the conflict could have been avoided. As the CBC Reality Check team found, the current course of events has been carefully planned by a powerful group of men, beginning even before George Bush assumed the U.S. presidency. 

George W. Bush, presidential candidate, said on Oct. 11, 2000. 

"I think one way for us to end up being viewed as the ugly American is for us to go around the world saying, 'We do it this way, so should you.'" 

By early 2003 Bush's speeches were somewhat different: "The world has a clear interest in the spread of democratic values, because stable and free nations do not breed the ideologies of murder... By the resolve and purpose of America, and of our friends and allies, we will make this an age of progress and liberty." 

So, what happened? After the terrorist attacks on September 11, Bush had to rethink. But for many of those around him, there was no need for thought. Long before Sept. 11, influential neo-conservatives wanted to see America as an enlightened ruler, unchallenged, astride the world. Long before Bush was elected president, they got together and they wrote down a manifesto. 

The document was effectively a charter of the Project for a New American Century, a neo-conservative think tank in Washington. 

Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says, "In essence it's a call for an American empire, for what they call Pax Americana ... it's basically saying that the United States has to take responsibility and to enforce peace around the world and enforce what they call American principles and American interests." 

The founding members included Vice-President Dick Cheney; Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Paul Wolfowitz of the Defence Department; Richard Perle, head of the defence advisory board; Louis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff; John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control; and Elliot Cohen of the defence policy board. 

Much of what these men wanted is coming true: They urged that the U.S. abandon the anti-ballistic missile treaty. It has. 

They wanted establishment of more permanent U.S. military bases abroad. That is happening in the Philippines and in Georgia, and will likely happen in Iraq. 

They urged regime change as a goal of foreign wars . . .  and not just in Iraq. 

They wanted the U.S. as a global "constabulary" – their word – unburdened by the United Nations or world opinion, preventing any challenge to U.S. dominance. 

But, they wrote . . . a year before Sept. 11. . . such aspirations are unlikely to be realized without "a catastrophic and catalyzing event . . . like a new Pearl Harbor." 

William Kristol, a leading neo-conservative and director of the Project for a New American Century, believes such goals are good and right, and he's delighted with all this success, but says there is more to do. 

"We haven't persuaded the Bush administration of everything… I think we need to spend more on defence, I think they need to re-think their policy toward Saudi Arabia, I think the administration kicked the can down the road on North Korea, but that remains a threat…" 

It's America as Gary Cooper in High Noon, say the critics. Standing tall, all alone, building a new American empire in a new American century. 

"Kristol has used the term 'benevolent global hegemony,' which to me says empire, but I suppose if you put the word benevolent in front of it, it makes it OK," Bookman says. 

It's been a long time in the making. And wise people will not underestimate the determination of its proponents. 

"The point of view from here is a really attractive agenda of governing. We never thought of ourselves as simply intellectual thought experiments," Kristol says.