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Stories from 2002-04-19

PR Nightmare on the Home Front

Margaret Wente | Globe and Mail | April 19, 2002

"But even those who support the war effort can smell a monumental snafu. Our troops were on a routine training exercise. They were bombed by a pilot who was convinced he was taking fire from the enemy. What was he doing there? How come no one back in air control told him they were good guys? Who failed to pass along the information? How could there be such a fatal breakdown in communications?" [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.