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