GOD'S OWN COUNTRY: AMERICA, THE (not always so) BEAUTIFUL: (mostly) current texts, comments, essays etc. [up to March 19, 2003]
#1) John le Carré. "The United States has gone mad" [text of article]
#2) Timothy Garton Ash, "Anti-Europeanism in America" [text of essay]
#3) Stuart Reid, "The Anti-Europeans"[published in THE SPECTATOR]
#4) Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness" [text of essay in Policy Review]
#5) Norman Schwarzkopf: Desert Caution [text of article in The Washington Post]
#6) Wesley K. Clark: A General's Doubts
#7) Press conference with Donald Rumsfeld (Jan. 22, 2003): "OLD EUROPE" [text] EXTRA (text): Rumsfeld lumps Germany with Libya and Cuba
#8) State of the Union Address (Jan. 28, 2003)
#9) UN resolution 1441 [full text] see also: "material breach" (Steve Bell, cartoon)
#10) Robert Byrd, US senator: We stand passively mute
#11) Angela Merkel (!): Schroeder Doesn't Speak for All Germans (!)
#12) Gibes at the French: "What do you call 10,000 Frenchmen with their arms up?" (etc)
#13) U.S.-British Draft Resolution (UN Security Council), February 24, 2003
#14) Memorandum, submitted by France, Russia, Germany, February 24, 24, 2003
#15) Hitler on the Nile or What Would Ike Do? (comment, February 25, 2003)
#16) The Saddam and George Show (The Guardian, February 25, 2003)
#17) Paulo Coelho: "It's under Bush's Bed" (comment, February 26, 2003)
#18) Bush speech (before theAmerican Enterprise Institute), February 27, 2003
#19) John Kiesling's letter of resignation (The New York Times, February 27, 2003
#20) Bush Press Conference, March 6, 2003
#21) Jimmy Carter: Just War -- or a Just War? (The New York Times, March 9, 2003)
#22) Maureen Dowd: The Xanax Cowboy (The New York Times, March 9, 2003)
#23) Senator William Fulbright on the Arrogance of Power (published in 1966!)
#24) Young Germans Ask: Grateful for What? (The New York Times, March 9, 2003)
#25) Countdown to Execution No. 300 (The New York Times, March 10, 2003
#26) "Freedom Fries"(sic[k]): a) CBS plus cartoon(1) b) CNN plus cartoon(2) c) BBC plus cartoon(3)
#27) The New Yorker: Attack Anxiety, March 14, 2003
#28) Paul Krugman, Losing touch of reality (The New York Times, March 15, 2003)
#29) Audacious Mission, Awesome Risks (The Washington Post, March 16, 2003)
#30) Bush, Ultimatum, March 17, 2003 (Text of speech)
#31a) Robin Cook's speech of resignation 31b) cartoon by Steve Bell
#32) Comment by Thomas Friedman: "D-Day" (The New York Times, March 19, 2003)
#33) Fantasy Budget (The Washington Post, March 19, 2003)
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