LEAD STORY
Divided We Stand: A defiant Jacques Chirac leads European opposition to war in Iraq, but his stance has alienated allies and thrown NATO into crisis

'France Is Not a Pacifist Country': Monsieur le President tells TIME's James Graff and Bruce Crumley of his objection to war and his love of American junk food

Foreign Affairs: He may be shy of using force in Iraq, but the French President is no stranger to conflict

Friend or Faux?: Americans feel betrayed by French attempts to stop a war against Iraq, says Jake Tapper

Collateral Damage
Schröder's antiwar policy has ruptured Germany's historic alliance with the U.S.

Voting With Their Feet: In capital cities across the globe, unprecedented millions march against war in Iraq

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Why do Europeans attack President Bush's line on war with Iraq?

They doubt Saddam is a danger
They don't want Iraqis to die
They fear war may spread
They think war will hit efforts to beat terror
They suspect Bush's motives
They've forgotten the lesson of history
They're jealous of America

NOTE: This is an unscientific, informal survey for the interest and enjoyment of TIME.com users and may not be indicative of popular opinion.

Vive La Difference Why France is Different France's ideologies are moving with the times

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Saddam Hussein A Week in Hell At the precipice of war, facing mutiny at home, Tony Blair stays cool
   
Students read Lysistrata Taking a Stand on Stage This season there's no avoiding the theater of war
   
Saddam Hussein Don't Oust Saddam U.S. diplomat warns his former bosses
   
U.S. troops Room to Turn? Turkey's parliament may still allow in U.S. troops
   
Tony Blair Conflicted George Bush's European allies swim against antiwar opinion
Romanian Support Family Feud France urges new Europeans to toe the old line
TIME Europe, Feb. 24, 2003 French Resistance Chirac says non to U.S. plans for a war to disarm Iraq
War Torn The new gulf between European. leaders and their people

6 Reasons America's allies want Bush to slow down the war machine

Mad at America Can the Transatlatic alliance survive?

Collision Course Germany attacks the U.S. line on Iraq

Don't Mention the War
Josef Joffe on Schröder's flirtation with the pacifist lobby

Yankee Stay Home!
The U.S. gears up for war on Iraq, but Europeans may not follow

FROM THE FEB. 24, 2003, ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED SUNDAY, FEB. 16, 2003

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