U.S. Perspectives

• What We Do Now;  A peace agenda, The Nation, Apr. 21 issue

• Hospitals Overwhelmed By Living and the Dead, washingtonpost.com, Apr. 8

• George W. Queeg, by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Mar.14
• Second US Diplomat resigns over Iraq Policy, Wire Services, Mar. 10
• Bush Sr. warning over unilateral action, Times Online, Mar. 10
• U.S. Diplomat Resigns over Iraq Policy, Veterans for Peace, Feb. 27
• A Statement by President Carter:  An Alternative to War, Jan. 31
• "An Open Letter to the Members of Congress", editorial, The Nation, Sept. 25, 2002  A challenge to Congress to exercise its responsibility as the legislative body of government.
• "CIA Intelligence Refutes Bush's War Rhetoric", David Corn, The Nation, Oct. 10, 2002.  Information from the CIA which seriously questions Mr. Bush's position on the war.
• "Help Us to Stop the War", Scott Ritter, The Guardian/UK, Oct. 7, 2002.  Discusses the legality and constitutionality of the war.
• "Letter by Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark to UN Security Council", Sept. 20, 2002.  A call to the UN Security Council to think in terms  of the mission of the UN.
• "Medical Consequences of Attaching Iraq", Helen Caldicott, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 10, 2002.  Discusses the effects of radiation on the body.
• "Moving from a Culture of War to a Culture of Peace", David Adams, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Sept./Oct. 2002, pp. 26-28.  Discusses the components of the culture of war and the culture of peace which offer suggestions for action.
• "The Rush to War", Richard Falk, The Nation, Aug 19/26, 2002.  Comment on the constitution and the process of the administration in moving toward war.
• "U.S. Double Standards", Stephen Zunes, The Nation, Oct. 14, 2002.  Argues that points put forth by the administration justifying the invasion of Iraq are points that are operative in other parts of the world which the administration ignores.