News Analysis on Indian point of view
When it is all over, there was never any doubt that it would not be, the governments of the world will sit down and cry copious tears about the people of Iraq even as they fight over the proceeds of oil.

The Arab governments will come out with rich homilies of support for Iraq even as their police use the most oppressive methods to curb the wave of dissent sweeping through the streets.

London and Washington will gloat over the success of their troops and strategy even as the blood is flowing through the streets of Iraq.

And the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who abdicated all the responsibility associated with his office, will emerge from the woodwork to take up the humanitarian and reconstruction tasks that the United States decides to give to him.

The coalition troops are sitting around Baghdad and will soon storm the streets. Many will be killed, but the head of President Saddam Hussein, George W Bush hopes, will assuage public reaction as it did in the days when the cowboys collected the scalps of native Americans to establish control over the new land.

Murder has been justified through propaganda, genocide condoned, the destruction of a sovereign nation legitimised by men who have no conscience and no morality.

India is one of the countries sitting it out on the fence, with the government