An eye for an eye,
A tooth for a tooth,
Till we are all eyeless
And toothless.

The Bush administration has made it abundantly clear that it has a policy of containing international terrorism by extermination or imprisonment without adherence to international law. It is an open question how far this policy is being implemented in Iraq but clearly the wave of torture and humiliation being uncovered now reflects what has been happening in Guantanamo.

This latest atrocity in Western Iraq is probably more a misjudgment by military intelligence, assuming it really was a wedding party, than a deliberate act of homicide. However, the fact that we can inflict death and destruction by remote control, rather than face to face, doesn't raise our actions to a higher plain. They're still willing to gamble that they can exterminate the terrorists. By our actions in Iraq we have in fact recruited many more terrorists than we have been able to eliminate, and that policy is a dismal failure.

More and more people, Republicans in this country as well, agree that it's time for regime change here at home. And we'll work hard to see that this happens in November.

Charley Noble