Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics and chair of the Peace &
Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, is the
author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of
Terrorism (Common Courage) and the editor of Nonviolent Social
Movements: A Geographical Perspective (Blackwell).
The effort by the Bush Administration and Congress to portray the planned invasion of Iraq as simply an effort to enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions reaches a new low in double