The lines are being drawn toward a possible WWIII...
If conflict widens will the shrubbies then continue shifting their stated pretext for the Iraq invasion to include justification for starting a world war?
Will WWIII be marketed as an intended consequence?
I do not support or condone any other country entering into armed conflict with the US or our allies. The possibility of widening conflict is becoming greater though.
It's only been a few days...the increase of the possibility is happening rather rapidly.
US 'targeting Muslim nations'
KUALA LUMPUR: Malay-sian Prime Minister Maha-thir Mohamad accused the US and its allies of targeting Islamic countries for invasion and said Iran, Sudan and Libya could be singled out after the war in Iraq.
Mahathir also criticised the US-led attempts to topple Saddam Hussein, and derided Washington, Britain and Spain as having "low morals" and "supporting assassination as a weapon of national policy," The New Straits Times reported.
In his first comments since war broke out in Iraq, Mahathir, who is chairman of the 116-member Non-Aligned Movement, said the US and its allies may next target Muslim countries accused of autocratic rule.
"So maybe after the attacks on Iraq, their next target will be Iran and other nations like Sudan and Libya," Mahathir was quoted as saying. "These countries have been accused of being ruled with an iron fist and the US has claimed that they want to liberate the people."
Mahathir said Malaysia was worried that smaller nations could no longer count on the United Nations if attacked by the United States and its allies, which launched the invasion on Iraq without a mandate from the world body.
He said Malaysia was strongly opposed to the war in Iraq as "we do not believe that by killing others, we can settle any dispute."
Meanwhile, a rescue operation to evacuate Malaysians from countries bordering Iraq will begin as soon as the Royal Malaysian Air Force gets airspace clearance, local media said.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa said "no Arab can accept" the US-led coalition's campaign of bombardment in Iraq, at the opening of a delegates' meeting of the 22-member group in Cairo.
"There is a state of turmoil and rage in the world against this unfair war on Iraq," added Moussa, branding the campaign as an "aggression."
The meeting held in the headquarters of the Arab League was to prepare a conference of Arab foreign ministers tomorrow.
Egypt's Mena news agency said the ministers' conference will discuss "the aggression carried out by US, British and other foreign forces on Iraq."
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hit out at the US offensive as a "manifestation" of a "new Hitlerism" and warned any such operation against Iran would be "doomed to failure", the official Irna news agency reported.
"The US strike against Iraq is a symbol of the emergence of a new Hitlerism in the history", he told thousands of worshippers in the holy city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, Irna said.
Russia vowed to block any future moves by the US and its allies to win UN blessing for the military action against Iraq and the post-war power structures they might set up there.
India said it was opposed to war and that the military action by the US and its allies against Iraq was unjustified and avoidable.
US leadership is waging war on Iraq to divert attention from the under-performing US economy, said Joerg Haider, the controversial former leader of Austria's extreme right.
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