"After resigning [as a US diplomat in Greece], I came to see myself as the canary in the mine shaft, the squeamish soul that keeled over first when our policy became toxic. [The Greeks'] view is that of the majority of the Muslim world: The United States put itself into the ranks of evil by failing to impose the just peace in the Middle East its power allegedly permitted it." [more]

"A high-level UK source said last night that intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic were furious that briefings they gave political leaders were distorted in the rush to war with Iraq." [more]

"The premise on which the White House sold this war to Americans — Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that were a direct threat to us — has yet to be validated. Some who accepted that are beginning to feel a little bit had. If you're going to invade a country without direct provocation, the justification should be ironclad both before and after the fact." [more]