The question remains: "Why Do They Hate US?"

At a time when the Bushies are once again courting the UN - still without acknowledging their errors in Iraq - some Iraqis are demanding that US insiders who supported Saddam until 1990 should also face trial.

"Saddam should not be the only one who is put on trial. The Americans backed him when he was killing Iraqis so they should be prosecuted," said Ali Mahdi, a builder.

This will no doubt be perplexing to those who believed, like Donald Rumsfeld, that Iraqis would welcome their "liberators" with open arms. But the question asked widely in the days after 9/11 - "Why do they hate us?" - remains unaddressed. Indeed, the USA is more hated now than ever.

Consider this. According to Sonoma State University's Project Censored, a 27-year-old program dedicated to shining light on the shortcomings of major news media, the Bush administration has broken or otherwise compromised about 10 international treaties. These include:

- the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
- the Chemical Weapons Commission,
- the Biological Weapons Convention,
- the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,
- the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty,
- the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines,
- the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and
- the U.N. Convention on Climate Change.

Iraqis do not want to be subjugated by an aggressive, culturally insensative, oil-greedy military force with no real concern for the lives and welfare of human beings beyond its own borders. Neither does the rest of the world.