"What is the Real State of the Union?"
a special report by the Atlantic Monthly in partnership with the New America Foundation
a PDF version of their Real State of the Union paper.
http://www.accuracy.org/2003/
Annotated version of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0301souann.html
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0301souresp.html
"Empire Strikes First"
"There was no smoking gun last night. There was merely a smoky allusion." --
Maureen Dowd
no "axis of evil"; no reference to that "dead or alive" guy
David Corn
John Nichols
William Hartung
http://www.legitgov.org/mike_essay_unclear_unpresent_danger_012903.html