GOD'S OWN COUNTRY: AMERICA, THE (not always so)  Beautiful: THE LATEST: "let's roll" [begun March 19/20, 2003]

A) Cartoon: "let's roll"

B) "For might makes right ..." Send the Marines, song by Tom Lehrer, text plus real audio

C) "BIG STICK": The last cartoon by the legendary American cartoonist Herblock, published in August 2001.

D)  "Shock and Awe" (chapter 2)  [shouldn't it be "shocking and awful"???]    Baghdad air strike (March 21, 2003)          see also: www.dodccrp.org/shockIndex.html     cartoon (1): Steve Bell    cartoon (2): Carlson "Shock and Awful"

#1) Bush speech, March 19, 2003

#3) Ready for Peace? (The New York Times, March 20, 2003)

#4) CIA fix on Saddam, (The Washington Post, March 20, 2003

#6) Saddam's Speech (Associated Press, March 20, 2003)

#5) Rumfeld's news briefing (DoD news briefing, March 20, 2003)

#6) Blair's speech, March 20, 2003 (The Guardian, March 20, 2003)

#7) By Whose Authority? (The Washington Post, March 21, 2003)

#8) Double Standard on Dissent (The Washington Post, March 21, 2003)

#9) Speaking Out in Wartime (The Washington Post, March 21, 2003)

#10) a) Open letter by Michael Moore to "Governor"(!) Bush     b) cartoon (1)   c) cartoon (2)

#11) Dixie Chicks squawk (newsobserver.com, March 28, 2003)

#12) Margaret Atwood, A letter to America (March 28, 2003)

#13) Maureen Dowd: Back off Syria Iran (The New York Times. March 30, 2003)

#14) The New Yorker:  How it came to war (March 31, 2003) [decision to attack Iraq already made in July 2002]

# 15) The New Yorker: Who lied to whom (March 31, 2003)

#16) Collateral Damage (Hendrik Hertzberg in The NewYorker, March 31, 2003)

#17) Don't mention the V-word (The Idependent, March 31, 2003)

#18) A fitting link for April Fool's Day:  "www.germanystinks.com" 

#19) Art Buchwald, Perle Jam (The Washington Post, April 1, 2003)

#20) Maureen Dowd, Warring Tribes, Here and There (The New York Times, April 2, 2003)

#21) Jonathan Freedland: Emperor George (The Guardian, April 2, 2003)

#22) Casualty list, April 2, 2003 (newsobserver.com)

#23) Poem by Andrew Motion on the war in Iraq: "Regime Change" (published in The Guardian, April 3, 2003)

#24) PRIVATE EYE No 1077 (April 4 - April 14): St Albion Parish News

#25) Dissenting Diplomats [text] (April 4, 2003)         cf.  www.workingforchange.com

#26) Henry Porter: A very Roman lesson for today (The Observer, April 6, 2003)

#27) Robert Kagan: Resisting Superpowerful Temptations (The Washington Post, April 9, 2003)

#28) Maureen Dowd: Dances with Wolfowitz (The New York Times, April 9, 2003)

#29) Saddam's statue: a) photo  b) cartoon (Deore)   c) cartoon (Carlson)   d) cartoon (McCoy) 

#30)  Pyrrhic Victory on the Tigris (The Guardian, April 11, 2003)

#31) Poetry (!) by D.H. Rumsfeld, accomplished poet (!)

#32)  a) Text of speech by Dubya to the people of "Texraq": SATIRE!!!!    b) Official speech by George W. Bush

#33) The fire this time (Who'll be next? or: WW III - WW IV) (The Washington Post, April 13, 2003)

#34) The Bush Doctrine (The New York Times, April 13, 2003)

#35) The New Yorker: War Without End? (April 14, 2003)

#36) Art Buchwald, Critical Mass (The Washington Post, April 24, 2003)

#37) Art Buchwald, Dream Team in Iraq (The Washington Post, May 1, 2003)

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