by Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Jonathan S. Landay
12/17/04 (Knight Ridder) --WASHINGTON - The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department have warned President Bush that the United States and its Iraqi allies aren't winning the battle against Iraqi resistance who are trying to derail the country's Jan. 30 elections, according to administration officials.
PROUT Editor's note: This old letter of Victor Hugo still rings true today. Long ago, he called for a united states of Europe and a united states of the world. In the Preface to his famous book, Les Miserables, he stated:
"So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century -- the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light -- are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world; -- in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use." 1862.
