Looking back on the war : snips of editorials from around the world

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Looking back on the war

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpwar193713769mar19,0,3440029.story?coll=ny-viewpoints
COMPILED BY VALERIE KELLOGG

March 19, 2004


No matter what happens in Iraq one year after the war started, there can be no reasonable justification for it. People have come to realize that the weapons of mass destruction are closer to a myth than a reality, and many have come to believe that the U.S.A. had other agendas.

- Yemen Times editorial


Much of the world now regards America itself as a menacing, unstable threat. President Bush has stuck his head into a hornet's nest. The United States will bleed men, money and reputation for a long time before it figures out how to get out of the first colonial misadventure of the 21st century.

- Eric Margolis, columnist for the Toronto Sun


Despite all the wonderful talks about the unity of Iraqis and the integrity of Iraq, the ethnic divisions are becoming so obvious that they cannot be overlooked through pompous words and empty slogans.

- Bahrain Tribune editorial

How can one fight against such a danger as terrorism? The American way is known. Legitimate in the first instance - Afghanistan, taking into account the role and place of the Taliban in the deployment of al-Qaida - it has led the United States to open, in Iraq, a damaging, illegitimate and useless digression.

- Jean-Marie Colombani, editor of Le Monde (France)

What is the difference between the victims in Madrid and the ten-thousand Iraqi civilians butchered by U.S. military forces? One type of attack is not more right or less wrong than another. The stupidity and blind arrogance of the Bush regime has thus placed the U.S.A. in the same bag as every terrorist organization.

- Pravda (Russia) editorial


Terrorism is a calculated use of violence or the threat of a violent act with the objective to coerce or intimidate the government or societies. ... That and nothing else has defined the occupation of Iraq. It has been a terrorist act.

- Jose Maria Tortosa,

columnist for Diario de

Alicante (Spain)

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