2003 March | Here & Now

Troops Push To Baghdad; Basra Report; Military Analysis 03/31/03; Secretary Rumsfeld Warns Syria, Iran; Bush Admin and Field Generals Rift; Arab Influx into Iraq; Uniforms, Communications, and the Geneva Convention; Arizona Native Americans Unite Over Missing Soldiers; Iraqi Americans on the War, Part II; Today’s News Wrap-Up: March 31, 2003

Report from the North; U.S. Military Gains and Setbacks; U.S. and Brits Differ Over Postwar Iraq; Measuring the Work of Embedded Journalists; U.S. Strikes on Iraq Communications Raise Legal Debate; Al Qaeda May Be Helping in Basra; House Approves Day of Prayer for Troops; Tracing the Phrase “Shock and Awe”; Today’s News Wrap-Up: March 28, 2003

Blair and Bush Meet to Discuss Postwar Plans; Paratroopers Arrive in Northern Iraq; Neighboring States: Iran; Toughest Battle Will be for Baghdad; Researchers May Have Discovered Deadly Virus; Friends Colleagues Remember Moynihan as Statesman and Senator; Letters; Invasion of Lawyers; American Army and American Muslims; Today’s News Wrap-Up: March 27, 2003

March Towards Baghdad Slows; Two Competing Strategies; Northern Iraq Kurds Await Breakthrough; The Basra Uprising and British Forces; The Shia Muslims of Iraq; Analysts Criticize Bush $75B War Chest; Senate Reduces Bush Tax Cut; India and Pakistan Test Fire Missiles; Author Joseph Braude on Rebuilding Iraq; News Wrap 03.26.03

101st Airborne Moves into Iraq; U.S. Forces Near Baghdad, Delayed by Storm; Military Analysis from Colonel Kalev Sepp; Anthony Cordesman on the Iraq War; Battlefield Medicine; Saddam’s Republican Guard; Assessing Civilian Deaths; CNN Producer Expelled from Baghdad; Views on War from the American Midwest; Buddhist Perspective on War; War Wrap

General Tad Oelstrom; Reports from Northern Iraq; Saddam Rallies Troops in TV Appearance; Applying the Rules of War to Iraq; The Political and Monetary Costs of War; Preventing Terrorism While at War; Parents and Children Talk About War

“Shock and Awe” Attack Begins; Following the 101st Airborne; Iraq War Update; Bombardment in Baghdad; Donald Rumsfeld Briefing; Editorial Roundtable; Iraqi Americans Share Thoughts on the War

War in Iraq Begins; World Reacts to Iraq War; America’s Next Move; The Fate of Kurds in a Post-Saddam Iraq; Congress Agenda Full; International Press Round-Up; U.N. and Refugees; Profiling Saddam Hussein

Baghdad Debrief; Iraq Exodus; Turkey to Vote on Aiding U.S. Military; U.N. Officials Meet on Iraq, Anyway; Following a U.N. Weapons Inspections Team; U.S. Considers Iraq “Wild Card” Aggression; Protesting Easter Baskets with War Toys; Inside the White House Situation Room

Iraq News Wrap; Public Opinion to Bush Speech; U.S. Military Strategy for War; Kurds Await an Iraq War; U.N. Relevance Questioned; Congress Debates Federal Budget; The Cost of War; EPA Memo Says Ground Zero Air was Unsafe; Space Shuttle Columbia Data

Vox: War with Iraq; Iraq Deadline Today; Preparations for War; Pockets of Protest in Congress; Respiratory Syndrome Outbreaks; American Woman Killed in Israel; WW II Vet for Iraq War; Country Music Popularity

Setback for the U.S. at The United Nations; Human Shield Deported From Iraq; Retail Sales Down; Spring Gardening Tips; Editorial Roundtable: The Domestic Agenda; A Silver Lining; “The Safety of Objects”

U.S. May Delay Vote on U.N. Resolution; Before War, Companies Can Already Bid to Reconstruct Iraq; Consequence Management; Steps of Our Ancestors; Iraq Before Saddam; Elizabeth Smart Found Alive After 9 Months; Abortion Bill Debated; Letters from You; War Poems

Serbian Prime Minister Assassinated; Britain, America, and Iraq; Report from Baghdad; Longfellow House; Diplomat Resigns in Protest of Iraq Policy; Bill Would Exempt Army from Environment Laws; Army Cats (and Dogs); Baking in America, and Freedom Toast

Diplomacy for War; Pakistan and the War; The View in Kuwait; Human Rights in America’s Prison Camp; High Blood Pressure Studies Conflict; Radio Tikrit; Death Penalty and Texas Justice; False Conviction; Necrotizing Fasciitis; Lift Every Voice

Unemployment Rate Pushes 6 Percent; Doctors Protests Could Affect Patients; Palestinian Prime Minister Post Approved; Leaks and Lessons of the Pentagon Papers; Waiting is a Political Game; A Military Family: War and Peace at Home; Still Listening to Woody Guthrie

United Nations Report on Iraq

Bus Bombing in Haifa Kills at Least 15; BBC Interviews Donald Rumsfeld; SF Police Placed on Leave; Anthony Swofford’s “Jarhead”; Defending an Abortion Doctor’s Killer; Child Welfare System Gone Wrong; Cyber Church; Kathy Gunst’s Lemon Pasta Soup