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Stories from 2003-03-07

Attack Could Be Launched Within Days

Eric Schmitt | Sydney Morning Herald | March 7, 2003

Pentagon officials have provided options for war on Iraq bypassing Turkey, and speculation is growing that strikes could be launched as early as the middle of next week. [more]

Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear

Paul Krugman | New York Times | March 7, 2003

"Why does our president condone the swaggering and contemptuous approach to our friends and allies this administration is fostering, including among its most senior officials? Has 'oderint dum metuant' really become our motto?' So reads the resignation letter of John Brady Kiesling, a career diplomat who recently left the Foreign Service in protest against Bush administration policy." [more]

Losses, Before Bullets Fly

Nickolas D. Kristof | New York Times | March 7, 2003

"Last week a member of the Canadian Parliament for the ruling party, Carolyn Parrish, was caught on television declaring: 'Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.'" [more]

Analysis: Selling War, Buying Recruits

Greg Goldin | Los Angeles Weekly | March 7, 2003

"It costs the Department of Defense roughly $11,000 to lure in each recruit, a price tag that has doubled in the last decade, in part because 64 percent of young Americans say they definitely would not volunteer for military service under any conditions." [more]

The Lie of the US Military

Mark Morford | San Francisco Chronicle | March 7, 2003

"This war was never about your safety, or the safety of this nation, or protecting freedom. It is about strategic power bases, oil reserves and control. It is about regional supremacy first, petroleum and military supply industries second, humanitarian and domestic-security concerns, well, about 147th." [more]

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