IT’S A TERRIBLE DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 3/7/03
A collection of writings on the current dangers of an apparently imminent War

PAGE ....................................... CONTENTS
2 ..........................THE GATHERING PERFECT STORM OF WAR AND FAILURE? -- Martin R. Carbone
3 ..........................THIS IS NO SMALL CONFLAGRATION WE CONTEMPLATE -- Senator Robert Byrd
6 ..........................A tussle over who can legally declare war -- Christian Science Monitor
8 ..........................ON WAR -- Herman Goering
10 .......................Give Freedom a Chance -- William Safire
12 .......................The Long Bomb --Thomas L. Friedman
15 .......................WAR, The Most Dreaded Enemy of Liberty -- James Madison -- the fourth President of the United States (1809-1817)
15 .......................Only Congress Can Declare War -- Lee Presser (a conservative businessman and writer)
16 .......................A DISCUSSION OF WAR POWERS -- Paula Wolfson, a reporter, discusses the Campbell Act
19 .......................WE DON’T NEED A WAR -- John J. Mearsheimer -- professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Stephen M. Walt -- academic dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
20 .......................Peace march signs
22 .......................ON DECLARING WAR -- Ask Jeeves (Advice given by Professor Harold Koh of Yale Law School)
23 .......................WHO HAS THE POWER TO DECIDE? -- John C. Bonifaz, an attorney in Boston with the Law Offices of Cristobal Bonifaz.
25 .......................EMAIL SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT -- Senator George Allen
27....................... “ ... THINGS COULD GO WRONG ... ” -- Editorial from NY Times
27 .......................Colin Powell in a Foreign Affairs essay in 1992
27 .......................President Bush Sr. in “A World Transformed,” a 1998 book
28 .......................A CHALLENGE
29 .......................ADDENDUM -- 3 years after pandora’s box was opened

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