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WRITERS, ARTISTS AND CIVIC LEADERS ON THE WAR
OpenDemocracy.net asked John le Carré, Roger Scruton, John Berger, Pervez Hoodbhoy and Salman Rushdie for a brief statement on where they stand.

John le Carré: "Americans can still awake to the shame of what is being done in their name. Britain is half way there. The French and Russians have been bribed and browbeaten into submission. Only the good Germans have so far succeeded in sticking to their silent guns. I wish profoundly that the rest of us Europeans, in the spirit of a nobler President, would declare ourselves to be citizens of Berlin."

In related news at Foreign Policy Magazine: "An Unnecessary War - The belief that Saddam’s past behavior shows he cannot be contained rests on distorted history and faulty logic. In fact, the historical record shows that the United States can contain Iraq effectively - even if Saddam has nuclear weapons - just as it contained the Soviet Union during the Cold War."

Günter Grass in DER SPIEGEL: Dieser Krieg ist gewollt

And at hebig.org/blog: Threatpoll - covering the Times Europe poll on who is the biggest threat to peace in 2003