"In a speech last night, President Bush turned America's first new security strategy in 50 years into the rationale for war." [more]

"The country now stands at a decisive turning point, not just in regard to the Iraq crisis, but in how it means to define its role in the post-cold-war world. President Bush's father and then Bill Clinton worked hard to infuse that role with America's traditions of idealism, internationalism and multilateralism. Under George W. Bush, however, Washington has charted a very different course. Allies have been devalued and military force overvalued." [more]

"FBI officials, who confirmed the operation yesterday after Arab community leaders disclosed it, said the 'voluntary interviews' were meant both to cull more information for the war and antiterrorism efforts and to reassure people that the FBI would protect them against hate crimes." [more]

"One of the fundamental findings of cognitive science is that people think in terms of frames and metaphors — conceptual structures like those we have been describing. When the facts don't fit the frames, the frames are kept and the facts ignored." [more]

"Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped to create? Why is it necessary to resort to war this week, while Saddam's ambition to complete his weapons programme is blocked by the presence of UN inspectors?" [more]