Iraq Issues and Information

Stuart323 at aol.com Stuart323 at aol.com
Thu Feb 20 07:39:04 PST 2003


Kansas Anti-war Activities "<A HREF="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/2003/02/16/news/5192565.htm">Not

enough being done to avoid war with Iraq</A>" Wichita Eagle. Along with 300- 500 others I attended a march and rally in Newton, Kansas. Here are some <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/stuart323_99/newton_antiwar_rally.htm">photos

I took</A>. There were also anti-war events in Lawrence (1000 +), Kansas City

(100 for teach-in on Feb 15 and 1600 on Sunday), Salina, Manhattan, and Winfield. There was a rally of 200 in Hutchinson on Feb. 8.)

<A HREF="http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4">Links to Photos from

Global Demonstrations</A>, The Nation

“<A HREF="http://commondreams.org/headlines03/0219-09.htm">Online Campaign Headquarters� Unveiled </A>

Win Without War Announces the Virtual March on Washington on February 26th

<A HREF="http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/">Win Without War website</A>

On February 26th, every Senate office will receive a call every minute from a

constituent, as they receive a simultaneous flood of faxes and e-mail. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the country will send the collective message: Don't Attack Iraq. Every Senate switchboard will be lit up throughout the day with our message -- a powerful reminder of the breadth and depth of opposition to a war in Iraq. And on that day, "antiwar rooms" in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles will highlight the day's progress for the national media, while local media can visit the "antiwar room" online to monitor this constituent march throughout the day.

Make the Virtual March a reality. You can (1) <A HREF="http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2467&ms=virt6">prepare

a free fax </A>for transmission on the day of the march, and (2) register to make phone calls to Congress on the day of the march. We're lining people up for every minute of the day in every state. Faxes are very easy and phone calls are the most effective. Do both or do what ever you can. <A HREF="http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/">Sign

up here</A>.

<A HREF="http://www.cpdweb.org/">We Oppose Both Saddam Hussein and the U.S.

War on Iraq</A>

This ad initiated by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy appeared in the New

York Times on Feb. 10. It has been signed by thousands. You can add your name on-line with the link above.

David Corn, "<A HREF="http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=402">Bush's

Presidential Malpractice</A>," The Nation

A plan for postwar Iraq? Who says we need a plan for postwar Iraq?

David Cortright and Alistair Millar,"<A HREF="http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/html/new_powell.response.html">Did

Powell Mislead Public About Iraq Terrorist Connections</A>?" Fourth Freedom Forum

"Response to Secretary of State Colin Powell's Allegations of an Iraqi-Al Qaeda Terrorist Connection"

Michael Tomasky "<A HREF="http://msnbc.com/news/752664.asp?0dm=C1ISO">A Little

Reminder</A>" MSNBC February 19, 2003

I’m still astonished by the number of smart people I run into who don’t know

any of this history, which makes it clear that the real reason we’re doing

this war in this way at this time is basically to prove to the world that we can.

This history does not start with September 11. It starts in the spring of 1992, when Dick Cheney was the Secretary of Defense, a job that, at that point, he fully expected to holdfor another four years. That March, a document called the Defense Planning Guidance was leaked.

Margot Patterson, "<A HREF="http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives/121302/121302a.htm">Beyond

Baghdad,</A>" National Catholic Reporter

Leonard Doyle<A HREF="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=377622">,"Children

of Iraq threatened</A><A HREF="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=377622">"

</A>Independent (UK) February 12, 2003

It is not Saddam Hussein and his henchmen, but Iraq's 12 million children who

will be most vulnerable to the massive use of force that the US plans to unleash against their country in the coming months. With or without UN Security Council backing, the looming war on Iraq will have immediate and devastating consequences for the country's children, more vulnerable now than before the 1991 Gulf War.

Tom Robbins, "<A HREF="http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0308/robbins.php">A

New Generation of Leaders Makes a Different Choice: Labor's No to War</A>" Village Voice February 19 - 25, 2003

Bill Onasch ,"<A HREF="http://www.kclabor.org/itsourissuemostofall.htm">It’s

Our Issue Most of All</A>," LaborAdvocate On-line

Talk presented to an antiwar Teach-In in Kansas City sponsored by KC Labor Against the War.

David Montgomery, <A HREF="http://www.workdayminnesota.org/permanent/history/labor_in_wartime.php">Labor

in Wartime: Some Lessons from History</A> Workday Minnesota

Kanan Makiya, "<A HREF="http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,896611,00.html">Our

hopes betrayed</A>" Observer February 16, 2003

How a US blueprint for post-Saddam government quashed the hopes of democratic

Iraqis.

<A HREF="http://http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/02/13/rashid/index.html">Joe

Conason's Journal</A> (premium--reg. required)

One of the foremost experts on Islamic movements dismisses Colin Powell's allegations of connections between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. AAhmed Rashid <A HREF="http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?todayDate=02/12/2003">interviewed

on NPR</A> or directly to the <A HREF="http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=FA&showDate=12- Feb- 2003&segNum=1&mediaPref=RM">Audio File</A> (you should be able to access these.)

IanWilliams, <A HREF="http://www.gvnews.net/html/Crisis/gvalert043.html">"Iraqis -- Caught Between Rhetoric and Reality"</A> Global Vision Crisis

Though the anti-war side has a long way to go to match the White House's divorce from reality, there are some questions they need to answer

Anthony Barnett, "<A HREF="http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=88&articleId=979">No

to war, no to Saddam</A>" Open Democracy

Can the peace movement oppose war on Iraq without appearing to support Saddam? It can – and it must, says openDemocracy’s editor. If the United States’ supremacist agenda promises war without limit, the world’s citizens need to combat it with a political strategy that joins cool judgement to impassioned humanity.

Mary Kaldor, "<A HREF="http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=88&articleId=974">In

place of war, open up Iraq</A>" OpenDemocracy

Can you be against war on Iraq without giving succour to Saddam? This is a new version of an old dilemma, says one of the leading voices of the 1980s Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly and European Nuclear Disarmament. Activists who opposed the nuclear arms race while supporting democratisation of the Soviet bloc helped carve a space where freedom could grow. Could the same happen in Iraq?

Laura Sandys, "&articleId=972">A game of shadow boxing: Iraq between past and

future</A>" OpenDemocracy Feb 13, 2003

Alliance for Workers Liberty. " <A HREF="http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=570">Briefingon

the Muslim Association of Britain</A>"

Why a socialist group think it was wrong to invite the MuslimAssociation (Muslim Brotherhood) into the leadership of the British anti-warmovement

<A HREF="http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=634">Bush's

war is for oil not freedom</A> Alliancefor Worker's Liberty

A reply to Christopher Hitchens and David Aaronovitch

StanCrooke, <A HREF="http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=583">"</A>T<A

HREF="http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=583">heCairo

Declaration - is it really a "great opportunity</A>"? Alliance for Worker's

Liberty

Gerard Emmett, "<A HREF="http://www.newsandletters.org/issues/2003/jan- feb/Lead_Jan03.htm">Iraq,

North Korea crises test Anti-war movement</A>," News and Letters Jan-Feb 2003



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