Protests Worldwide Against War:

Protests have circled the globe o the anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

In an ominous sign for the "coalition of the wilting", the largest assembly was a demonstration in Rome, which drew about 1 million people. And thousands of Japanese flooded the streets of Tokyo to denounce their government's military presence in Iraq. Ironically, the Japanese troops are called a "self-defense" unit, just the kind of Orwellian word-twisting we have become used to in the last 4 years.

Protesters in downtown Manhattan filled 20 blocks. Presumably, these people will not be voting GOP in November.

Those who opposed the war now seem to be the only ones capable of enunciating the truth. Bush urges "old friends" to put "past differences behind them. Here's what those "old friends" have to say:

French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin: "The war in Iraq was a mistake, I would even say, a blunder. We cannot fail to see that there are two centres that feed terrorism today: the first is the Middle East crisis, the second is Iraq."

European Commission President, Romano Prodi: "It happens in Iraq as elsewhere - Istanbul, Moscow, Madrid. The terrorism that the war in Iraq was supposed to stop is infinitely more powerful today than it was a year ago."