The world is slowly waking up from its sleep and realising that there's a Frankenstein's monster in Washington, created by People for a New American Century among others.

Here in Australia pro-war feelings are high and the record number of peace protesters have mostly vanished since the war began. I was at a picket of our prime minister who was visiting Melbourne last Monday, and there were only 100 or so protestors there. It was totally ignored by the press of course. (That's almost as many people as at the staged statue toppling in Baghdad by the way.)

Any residual anti-war feelings are being attacked from all sides of the political spectrum, including some liberal Marxists who opposed the Vietnam War 30 years ago, but who have now sold out and joined the establishment. Their pro-war views are gleefully published by newspapers here to discredit the anti-war movement. So conservatives are calling us anti-war protestors "anti-American" and flatulent old Marxists are calling us "reactionaries". Too bad no-one told them the Cold War is over.

A recent article by Karen Nakamura reports on a movement in the US to impeach Bush

http://www.coastalpost.com/03/04/18.htm

but as far as I know Australians are ignorant of this. I'd like to know how much support this has in the US. So any comments are welcome on this.

Most Australians are delirious about being on the world stage with the big powers. Our prime minister 'little' Johnny Howard is 'not-so-little' after all, as one newspaper put it. Our national inferiority complex, combined with our slavish dependence on overseas trends, means there has been very little questioning of US global war aims. All the daily newspapers supported the war of course. I guess it's pretty much the same in the States.

Still, I see a second coming for worldwide protest. And next time around it will be twice as big as before. My support to all those peaceniks in the US who are courageous enough to actively oppose this insanity that threatens to tear our world apart. The 'coalition of the willing' is living on borrowed time.