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War plans under fire as even Bush heartland talks peace

As the United States edges towards a possible war against Iraq, a sudden torrent of concern has begun to flow - a revolt by the intelligentsia spreading beyond the expected opposition political circles and penetrating the heart of the media and foreign policy establishment.
The esteemed New York Review of Books, in an article by one of the country's leading commentators, Anthony Lewis, argued that a regime change in Iraq could be 'the first step towards a new American imperium'. Meanwhile, wrote Lewis, 'the fear of looking unpatriotic inhibits dissent'. - Observer