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for more information.   The U.S. Must Have Stronger Evidence for
War in Iraq   Vice President Dick Cheney has joined Bush
administration hawks in calling for war with Iraq. He has
asserted, without providing evidence, that Saddam Hussein is
amassing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to use against the
United States and its allies. But the hawks’ rage against
Hussein is based on emotions, not on sound analysis. The ever-
changing reasons given for an invasion should lead one to be
suspicious about the need for a war against the leader of a
small, relatively poor nation. A deeper analysis of the hawks’
reasons for war show that they ring hollow