Add these to Naomi Klein’s comments I linked to earlier.

Maragret Atwood’s well-tempered A letter to America, which was published in the Globe and Mail in Canada and The Nation in America, and which addresses the internal state of the USA more than the war.

“You’re gutting the Constitution. Already your home can be entered without your knowledge or permission, you can be snatched away and incarcerated without cause, your mail can be spied on, your private records searched. Why isn’t this a recipe for widespread business theft, political intimidation, and fraud? I know you’ve been told all this is for your own safety and protection, but think about it for a minute. Anyway, when did you get so scared? You didn’t used to be easily frightened. “

And Goddess of Small Things author Arundhati Roy’s mightily angry article Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates from British paper The Guardian, in which she wipes the tears from her eyes, gets her teeth into the US war and doesn’t let go for a long time.

“So here’s Iraq – rogue state, grave threat to world peace, paid-up member of the Axis of Evil. Here’s Iraq, invaded, bombed, besieged, bullied, its sovereignty shat upon, its children killed by cancers, its people blown up on the streets. And here’s all of us watching. CNN-BBC, BBC-CNN late into the night. Here’s all of us, enduring the horror of the war, enduring the horror of the propaganda and enduring the slaughter of language as we know and understand it. Freedom now means mass murder (or, in the US, fried potatoes). When someone says “humanitarian aid” we automatically go looking for induced starvation. “Embedded” I have to admit, is a great find. It’s what it sounds like. And what about “arsenal of tactics?” Nice! “