In southern Iraq, a zealous young cleric rallies support against US occupation with his militia, which after suffering heavy losses in hard fighting with US forces last year, is regrouping and on the rise again. Clearly the US army does not have full control over a large part of the country though it's also accurate to say the US does not have much support in most of the country either.

The injustice of Bush's sale of fighter jets to Pakistan and offer of military arms supply to India. Escalation of tensions, increased chance of war, higher destructiveness of war if it does break out and the use of large sums of valuable money to buy these high-tech weapons of destruction which instead could have been used for building schools, housing and improving infrastructure- there's a wide choice of reasons. Indian academic and peace activist Mr. P. Bidwai explains all this in further detail.