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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