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Stories from 2002-10-08
"When the role that Afghanistan's deep descent into chaos played in the 9/11 attacks became clear, the White House promised things would be different this time around. The world would not abandon Afghanistan again. Yet a year after the start of the air war that ousted the Taliban, Afghanistan could be forgiven for feeling neglected." [more]
"Again daring to go where few of his colleagues venture, Kennedy defined all of this by its proper name: 'The administration's doctrine is a call for 21st century American imperialism that no other nation can or should accept.' The debate in Congress this week is centered on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but what is really at stake are basic structures of the American idea." [more]
" 'Should Saddam conclude that a U.S.-led attack could no longer be deterred, he probably would become much less constrained in adopting terrorist action,' the deputy C.I.A. director, John McLaughlin, continued. He noted that Mr. Hussein could use either conventional terrorism or a weapon of mass destruction as 'his last chance to exact vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him.' " [more]
"The current debate about war should address not only whether we go to war but also why: If and when we invade, we should do so not because we deem it justifiable but because we can show that it is just." [more]
"Iraq's fragmented society and blood-soaked political history should make anyone wary of predicting the swift creation of a viable democracy there. The U.S. establishment does not seem to appreciate how deeply entrenched are sectarian, tribal and ethnic loyalties and how complex would be the job of reconnecting Iraqi communities, estranged from one another by decades of divisive official policies." [more]
"The demonstrations, held on Sunday, the anniversary of the commencement of bombing in Afghanistan, marked the start of what is intended to be a series of actions to mobilise public opinion against American troops being deployed against Saddam Hussein." [more]
In addition to protests on Sunday, a Saturday gathering in Seattle was greeted by Scott Ritter, former chief UN weapons inspector. [more]
"Echoes of the Vietnam War era, right down to the music that was performed, reverberated Monday at the entrance to Black Hawk College as about 100 people gathered to protest the possibility of war against Iraq." [more]
"In a sign of growing opposition in the academic world to potential war with Iraq, more than 1,000 students and professors at local colleges spoke out yesterday at rallies, panels, and marches, vowing to step up opposition to a preemptive strike against Iraq." [more]
Gestures of solidarity from onlookers "seemed to reinforce what some of those gathered believe — that support for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq ... does not run as deep throughout the country as many of the polls suggest." [more]
"Members of local peace organizations protested Monday against U.S. involvement in an attack against Iraq. Their message seemed clear: diplomacy over violence." [more]
"Indeed, in this era of low voter turnout and the Supreme Court arbitrating the 2000 election, there's less '60s-style, make-love-not-war idealism, observers say. Many students 'feel a great deal of alienation from the political process,' says Jeffrey Murer, a political scientist at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania." [more]
"With Congress on the verge of approving the use of force against Iraq, anti-war activists around the country are struggling to generate fervor for peace." [more]
"The situation involving Coleman and Wellstone is similar. The obvious judgment of the Coleman campaign is that Minnesota's electorate is interested above all in supporting Bush on the impending war with no ifs or questions." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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.
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