On May 1st there will be three anniversaries to mark. First, the International Worker’s Day (also known as May Day) originated in 1886 in Chicago and is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. The second marks the publication eight years ago of the Downing Street Memo in The London Times which provided the first solid evidence of Bush’s decision to invade Iraq regardless of any U.N. action. The last is the anniversary of President Bush’s arrival as the copilot in a Navy S-3B jet on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to announce we had won his war. The selection of an aircraft carrier for Bush’s speech was brilliant. There was live TV coverage from the flight deck of the perfect tail-hook landing. The plane was labeled ‘Navy 1’ and ‘George W. Bush, Commander in Chief’ was printed under the cockpit window. At first hearing it seemed to be an important speech for the American people, indeed...
