Washington Watch Articles From 2003
THE MISUSE OF POLLING: IRAQ
Early in President Bush’s recent public relations campaign to rebuild support for the U.S. war effort in Iraq, Vice-President Cheney appeared on “Meet the Press.”
RACHEL CORRIE: A DIFFERENT KIND OF AMERICAN LIBERATOR
A very different kind of American liberator was tragically killed last week, days before the Iraq war began.
ARAB OPINION OF U.S. HITS ALL TIME LOW
Arab public opinion attitudes toward the United States have dropped to dangerously low levels, even before an anticipated U.S.-led attack on Iraq.
SHEIKH ZAYED WAS RIGHT
The United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Nahayan did the right thing by publicly calling on Saddam Hussein to resign and go into exile. On at least three significant counts, he was right.
DEMOCRATS DEBATE WAR
Last week, Democrats debated the Bush Administration’s plan to go to war. The scene was the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)—the governing body of the party.
BUSH’S MISSION
If President George W. Bush’s two speeches this week are any indication, it appears that he, in fact, has his heart set on a military confrontation with Iraq. For weeks now, I’ve argued the opposite.
U.S. OPINION AND THE WAR
Anti-war sentiment, on display during last week’s mass demonstrations, is actually deeper and more wide-spread than those protests.
AN IMPERIAL WARIS NOT INEVITABLE
There is a disconnect between the reality of U.S. foreign policy and Arab perceptions about that policy. The issue of war in Iraq is a case in point.
OUR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
It was twenty-five years ago that I first came to Washington to begin working full-time on behalf of my community.