War is peace SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

As U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said prior to Bush’s address, “Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it, and those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it.”

Despite Bush’s invasion of Iraq in what Annan now calls an illegal war, the president said yesterday that U.N. members must “do more” to help in Iraq.

“Each of us alone can only do so much,” Bush said. “Together we can accomplish so much more.”

For a president who waged pre-emptive war in Iraq in defiance of the United Nations, citing now disproved weapons threats and now discredited terrorist connections, it seems a lesson learned too late.