| 9-11 Commission |
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| Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Official Government Edition from the Government Printing Office (by section or as a single 2.3 MB PDF file). This are other reports are also available from the Commission Web site. |
| Civil Liberties |
| Freedom & Security, a major address by Al Gore to the American Constitution Society and Moveon.org on Nov. 9, 2003. |
| Peace and Justice |
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Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace peace education
We Stand for Peace & Justice statement & opportunity to sign We Work for Peace & Justice essay |
| Iraq War |
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What Went Wrong, How the United States Got Into the Mess in Iraq, July 8, 2004, a 9 page report from Common Cause:
http://www.commoncause.org/action/0704_iraqreport.pdf
Iraq: A New Approach, August 2002, a 63 page report from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Iraq.Report.pdf. For individual chapters, go to http://www.ceip.org/files/publications/iraq/mathews.htm. Columbia International Affairs Online summary. Iraq: What Next? January 2003, 24 page report from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/pdf/Iraq/webfinalv2.pdf Our Common Responsibility - The Impact of a New War on Iraqi Children, Jan. 30, 2003, a 33 page report: http://www.warchild.ca/docs/final_report_report_january_29v1.0.pdf on War Child Canada Web site. See key findings. Secretary of State Powell's 2/5/03 address to the UN Security Council, transcript with slides: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html. The Carnegie Analysis of Powell's address is also available. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell by John Brady Kiesling UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (2002): http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/UN1441.pdf Cool War: Economic sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction by Joy Gordon, from Harper's Magazine, Nov. 2002: http://www.harpers.org/online/cool_war/ Intervension In Iraq?, PBS NewsHour March 7, 2003 lead story, provides links to Hans Blix's report, Chief nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei's report, and statements to the UN Security Council by Secretary of State Powell, Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov, French Foreign Minister de Villepin, and others. See also the French Proposal of 2/24/03 and French Foreign Minister de Villepin's statement to the Security Council of 2/14/03. Justice For Iraq, A Human Rights Watch Policy Paper, Dec. 2002 An Alternative to War for Defeating Saddam Hussein, A Religious Initiative, early March 2003 We must resist this war, statement by Christian leaders and opportunity to sign, late March 2003 War and Peace, Nov. 10, 2002 sermon by Rev. Sarah Oelberg For links to many more documents and news stories go the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Crisis in Iraq Web page. |