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Stories from 2003-10-17

Pentagon Unleashes Holy Warrior

William M. Arkin | Los Angeles Times | October 17, 2003

"A Christian extremist in a high Defense post can only set back the U.S. approach to the Muslim world." [more]

Students, Nuns and Sailor-Mongers, Beware

Jonathan Turley | Los Angeles Times | October 17, 2003

"Not only is the law being used to prosecute one of the administration's most vocal critics in an unprecedented attack on the 1st Amendment, but it appears to be part of a broader campaign by Ashcroft to protect the nation against free speech, a campaign that has converted environmentalists into 'sailor-mongers' and nuns into terrorists." [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.