A Great Divide.

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    • Subject Terms:
      EUROPE; IRAQ; UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED Nations. Security Council ; UNITED Nations
    • Subject Terms:
      HUSSEIN, Saddam, 1937-2006; BLIX, Hans, 1928-; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; BLAIR, Tony, 1953-
    • Abstract:
      States that Europe and the United States are largely split over whether a war to change the regime in Iraq is justified and contends that the divisions stem from differing perceptions of history and politics, power and God. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix's report to the United Nations Security Council on how much Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has complied with demands that Iraq disarm; Report that the Security Council is mostly in opposition to the U.S.-led war; How the whole idea of a war against Iraq looked like a lonely venture for U.S. President George W. Bush's administration and his supporter British Prime Minister Tony Blair; How the United States accused France of forgetting the sacrifices U.S. soldiers made for France during World War II; Difference of ideology; Anti-Americanism and skepticism in Europe; How U.S. citizens are religious in a way that Europeans cannot understand.