Yearly Archives: 2003

Washington – Known primarily through his combative, and self-confident, press conferences on C-SPAN, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won boffo reviews from critics who rarely agree. Rumsfeld’s “wit and charismatic candor” were praised on the liberal New York Times op-ed … Continue reading →

It is the largest ground force identified so far among the nearly 100,000 U.S. troops included in deployment orders signed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld since Christmas Eve. One of the first ground units to get orders was the … Continue reading →

Denouncing the war plan as an administration idée fixe that will undermine America’s standing in the world, stir unrest in the Mideast and damage the American economy, the protesters in Washington massed on Saturday for what police described as the … Continue reading →

January 19, 2003 8:30 a.m. Most Americans want the United States to take more time seeking a peaceful solution in Iraq rather than moving quickly into a military confrontation, a new poll says. By 60 percent to 35 percent, people … Continue reading →

The rest of Europe must be wondering whether Britain has gone into hibernation. At the end of this month our Prime Minister is likely to announce the decision he made months ago, that Britain will follow the US into Iraq. … Continue reading →

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this pre-war period is that despite intelligence dossiers, parliamentary speeches and months of disingenuous government propaganda portraying Saddam Hussein as an imminent threat to life on earth, only 37{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} of Australians support an illegal, … Continue reading →

January 14, 2003 Edward Hamm does not like George Bush’s war mongering, not one bit. Attacking Iraq at this junction is not just, Hamm says. War is not inevitable, he argues, and now is the time to stop it. Ed … Continue reading →

That’s the contention of a new Duke University study, published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, that showed the chemicals caused extensive cell degeneration and cell death in the testes of laboratory rats. Rats given the chemicals and … Continue reading →

Although it’s too early to tell whether they will become a potent political force, activists have persuaded 43 city councils to adopt anti-war resolutions, paid for a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal, circulated petitions via the Internet and … Continue reading →

Anti-war statements have been passed in other, smaller cities, including San Francisco; Seattle; Ithaca, New York, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Chicago, the third largest U.S. city after New York and Los Angeles, has 2.9 million people. Military action against Iraq would … Continue reading →