The Atlantic Summit
(held in the Azores, 15-16 March 2003)

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The war in general by the Anglo-American Axis upon Iraq

Statement of the Atlantic Summit: A vision for Iraq and the Iraqi people

Text of the statement on Iraq that was released Sunday at a summit in the Azores Islands, Guardian, Sunday March 16.

A Decision Made, and Its Consequences

By David E. Sanger, The New York Times, 17 March 2003. By giving the U.N. exactly 24 hours to approve the forcible disarmament of Iraq, President Bush and his supporters on the U.N. Security Council presented a stark choice today to the deeply divided world body: Join a preventive war, or stand aside.

Leaders Declare That Diplomatic Effort at U.N. Ends on Monday

By David E. Sanger and Warren Hodge, The New York Times, 17 March 2003. Bush and the leaders of Britain and Spain declare that the diplomatic effort to win support for disarming Iraq would end on Monday. Bush made it clear that the outcome at the U.N. made little difference, and that military action would begin soon.

Bush and Blair announce final countdown to war

World Socialist, [17 March 2003]. The final countdown has started towards Bush and Blair’s war on Iraq. Despite the best efforts of the pro-war propagandists, hundreds of millions around the war will be enraged at the onset of war and new huge protests are certain to occur. At the Azores summit Bush and Blair again attempted to portray this war for prestige and oil as a liberation of the Iraqi people and a blow ‘against terrorism’.

America on the Decline

Opinion by Fawaz Turki, disinherited@yahoo.com, Al-Jazeerah, 20 March 2003. Bush and his three principal allies, Britain, Spain and Portugal, arranged an emergency summit to discuss their failure to achieve U.N. approval authorizing war—in effect a summit designed to set a course toward immediate military action.