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Comments on the 2003 U.S.-led war in Iraq. View that the U.S. must pay for sparing Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein in 1991; Suggestion that the start of this war goes back to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks; Question of whether U.S. President George W. Bush is pursuing a war that his father, former President George Bush, left unfinished; The growing opposition to the war worldwide; Topic of anti-Americanism.

Reports that about 90 communities in the United States have adopted antiwar resolutions and at least 70 more communities are considering taking action against a U.S.-led war in Iraq. Foreign policy issues being added to local agendas; Local military personnel and how a war in Iraq would affect the community; Reasons for protesting the conflict include the economy and the belief that there is no link between the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and Iraq.

The article presents information on issues related to the war between the U.S. and Iraq. Americans were completely thunderstruck when they learned that somebody had the suicidal audacity to drive airplanes into the World Trade Center. Many Americans believed the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell when he said that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The article states that even if Saddam Hussein had left his country, the U.S. would have struck anyway.

Southeast Asia is experiencing a marked rise in Islamic fundamentalism. Among many adherents, the United States and the West are viewed as the enemy, something underscored by the October 12, 2002 bombing of a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali that killed almost 200 people, many of them foreigners. Authorities say the plan to attack so-called soft targets such as tourist destinations was hatched on January 28, 2003 at a meeting of Muslim extremists in Thailand. Especially in the south of the country by the Malaysian border, where Malay-Muslim separatists, divided from their co-religionists in Malaysia by an arbitrary border a century ago, have striven for their own nation. Resentment there has been simmering for years; now, in the wake of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent start of the U.S. campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, as well as the threat of war against Iraq, experts say the situation is coming to a boil.

The article discusses how the U.S. will implement a military drawdown without compromising its ability to maintain national security as it transitions from years of war. It warns that a botched drawdown could mean that when a call to war is made, brave but unprepared troops will be sent back to battle, citing the failure to anticipate the September 2011 bombings and the Iraq invasion in 2003. The U.S. Army reminds that troops will still be fighting in Afghanistan through 2014.

The article focuses on the position of several U.S. Democrats regarding the war. Senate Democrats voted in favor of giving President George W. Bush the authority to use force in October 2002, one month after the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. John Edwards, who was one of the senators who voted yes, calls that vote a mistake. A poll conducted by Opinion Research in 2007 showed that only 6% of Democrats favor the war compared to the 49% who favored Iraq invasion in a poll conducted in 2002.

Discusses the proper use of the word "war." Declaration of war on September 11, 2001 by the forces of Osama bin Laden; Urging of the public by the Bush administration to view Afghanistan and Iraq as a common place, fit for retaliatory war before they get around to launching another 9/11; Importance of remembering what provokes anti-Americanism; Suggestion that all should be ready to go to war to defend Christian individualism and the separation of church and state.

This article focuses on the U.S. war against Iraq. The author states that the war against Iraq raises several daunting questions. In its final report, the U.S. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States found no compelling evidence that Iraq had either planned or perpetrated attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Further, citing a National Security Council memorandum, the commission found that only anecdotal evidence linked Iraq to al Qaeda. In all, this constitutes the largest intelligence failure in U.S. history. The U.S. intelligence community failed to verify the existence of weapons of mass destruction, ascertain an association between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorist group al Qaeda and find an operational link between Iraq and al Qaeda in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Dover, Delaware, is home to the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs--the largest U.S. Department of Defense Mortuary. It is where America brings its dead soldiers home. Normally, seven people work at the centre; since March 2003, when the Iraq war began, there have been as many as 200 on staff. On May 1, 2003 George W. Bush declared major combat operations over--but in the mortuary, aluminum cases keep arriving. The networks may be denied access to some of those telling pictures of the dead arriving back in the U.S., but even if they had them, one wonders whether they would give the story of Americans dying in Iraq any more prominence. There seems to be a certain uneasiness about the Iraq issue that may be due to something else. Viewers are shying away from news: it is happening across the continent, across the networks. There has been a certain redefinition of news in the two years since The September 11, 2001 terror attacks: some things don't seem as important as they once did, after witnessing the events and aftermath of that day. These are challenging times for the media: stories are more complex, more international, and more expensive to cover, but the onus remains on reporters to find new ways to tell the ones that are important.

Comments on the failure of the U.S. military forces to discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Claims made by U.S. President George W. Bush prior to the war; Analysis of the implied link between Saddam Hussein and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.; Meaning of the controversy over justifying war in Iraq.

Queen's University professor Douglas Reid is willing to lay odds that Air Canada will seek bankruptcy protection -- at two-to-one. Analyst Cameron Doerksen says the airline will soon face a liquidity crunch -- likely in less than a year. Portfolio manager Andrew Martyn says it's not immediate, but if the company files for protection, it won't be a surprise. Even before September 11 and now the Iraq war, airlines around the world were suffering. Too many airplanes with too few passengers, and only the no frills carriers -- the new kids on the tarmac -- were consistently profitable. In the first week of the war alone, says the Air Transport Association, 10,000 U.S. airline jobs were cut. For Air Canada, international travel had been a bright spot. But in February 2003, its Atlantic flights had seven per cent fewer passengers than a year earlier. And with the 3,800-employee cut, Robert Milton, Air Canada's embattled but determined CEO, has eliminated a total of 8,800 jobs, or 20 per cent of the combined Air Canada-Canadian Airlines workforce, since taking over the competition in 1999. As Andrew Martyn, of money manager Davis-Rea Investment Counsel, says, Air Canada is on a "slow-torture" path to rock bottom.

Presents the writer's views on the U.S. President George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq on the grounds that Iraqi President Saddam Hussain is an avid supporter of international terrorism and the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda that was responsible for September 11, 2001 strikes in New York. Of the Americans polled by Time/Cable News Network, only 34 percent support the president's decision to invade Iraq with or without the support of the United Nations. There is one view that the only reason President Bush is so passionate about attacking Iraq is to take control of Iraqi oil. Many people who favor President Bush's plans use the events of September 11, 2001 as ammunition against those of us who oppose the war. Those opposing the war are just not convinced that toppling Saddam's regime will wipe out terrorism or the likelihood of another devastating attack on U.S. soil. One cannot squash terrorism when it boils down to a people's impassioned belief, a belief they are willing to die for. Stopping the extremists from enticing youngsters to commit suicide missions and to become martyrs all in the name of God requires a lot more than simply dropping bombs and then swooping in to rebuild a country.

Presents the views of the author with regard to United States foreign policy. Consideration of how Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld dismissed Germany and France as a result of their opposition to the proposed U.S. war in Iraq; Dangers of U.S. unilateralism; Suggestion from historian Richard Hofstadter that U.S. politics involves a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil; Impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.