Here are some links to a variety of perspectives on the conflict between the US and Iraq.  Read whatever looks interesting to you.:

 

The anti-war group MoveOn.Org has a page that offers a good summary of the current situation, with links to many documents (like the recent UN Resolution) and statements by administration officials and critics at http://peace.moveon.org/bulletin50.php3.

 

General Anthony Zinni (Ret.), who was the head of US Central Command from 1997 to 2000, offers a sober assessment of the likely course of a war in an October 31 speech at the Middle East Institute -- http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/zinni-iraq-conditions.cfm

 

A concise summary of arguments in favor of war is Kenneth Pollack "Next Stop Baghdad?" from Foreign Affairs March/April 2002 at http://www.embargos.de/irak/post1109/english/next_stop_baghdad_for_aff.htm

 

A concise rebuttal of the arguments for war is Steven Zunes "The Case Against the War" from the Nation magazine at http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020930&s=zunes.

 

TomPaine.com has a compendium of anti-war articles at http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6420

 

President Bush's most recent radio address, mostly about Iraq, is here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20021207.html

 

The President's October 7 speech outlining the case for war is here

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html

 

A group of eminent 'just war' theorists issued a joint statement on Iraq and pre-emptive war available at http://www.americanvalues.org/html/1b___pre-emption.html

 

Michael Walzer's view, as of September, is at http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020930&s=walzer093002