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Contact Numbers

Senate Foreign Relations Committee - contact them with concerns about war on Iraq, requests for ALL witnesses to testify before committee

FAX NUMBER for Senator Biden is 1-202-224-0139
FAX NUMBER for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff is 1-202-228-1608

or CALL the offices of
SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D-DE) 202-224-5042
and SEN. JESSE HELMS (R-NC) 202-224-6342

"The preemptive strike policy has no declared standards, no limits and no trigger except the personal displeasure or the president. The president may decide to take on Iraq because he has a good military reason or because he wants to avenge his father¹s embarrassment. He will not tell Iraq in advance what that country must do to avoid attack and he will not tell the American people."
- Craig Barnes full story >>

ARTICLES

Why a First Strike Will Surely Backfire - by William A. Galston, Washington Post
"A global strategy based on the new Bush doctrine means the end of the system of international institutions, laws and norms thatthe United States has worked for more than half a century to build."
..." A preemptive all-out invasion of Iraq would represent one of the most fateful deployments of American power since World War II. ... What is at stake is nothing less than a fundamental shift in America's place in the world."

The Coming October War in Iraq - By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

Making enemies make friends - by Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
How war on Iraq could cement an alliance between Iraq and Iran

Where antiterror doctrine leads - Bush lays groundwork for striking first at nations with weapons of mass destruction.
By Ann Scott Tyson The Christian Science Monitor

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
        -- Robert Lynd
New Readings

Iraq - A Timetable For War Despite mixed signals from the Republican elite, US sights are being trained on Iraq, says PAUL ROGERS. The question now is when the assault will begin.

Behind 'Plot' on Hussein, a Secret Agenda -- Scott Ritter- controversial former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, speaks out
"The leaked CIA covert operations plan in effect kills any chance of inspectors returning to Iraq, and it closes the door on the last opportunity for shedding light on the true state of affairs regarding any threat in the form of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction."

Activist counters five 'media lies' abuot war on Iraq


Participant Comments follow below

shamsudeen    shamsud@hotmail.com
05/08/03 13:31:20 GMT
I would just like to say that this war is just one part of George W. Bush's conspiracy to reak havoc on the world because he thinks he is King George. He wants the oil in Iraq, he thinks he deserves it becuase he is who he is(a self-indulgent, selfish, inconsiderate, murderous, and intolerable leader that is only in office because he was able to control the election to his advantage). The fact that there are people in this country who supports the increasing numbers of innocent deaths in Iraq is sickening and makes me feel unable to call myself and American. I propbably shouldn't even have capitalized the -a- in american. I'll probably never do it again.
Dan VanDerZee    do not have one
04/29/03 17:32:23 GMT
Attack by US could prompt Saddam Hussein

by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC News Online

.."the CIA assessment also suggests, as many analysts have, that an attack on Iraq could be the trigger that prompts Saddam Hussein to use his chemical and biological weapons."

Great, just great.
It IS time we assessed *consequences* - all of them, not just the one s we want to look at.

pema    pema@global-dialog.org
10/10/02 06:03:46 GMT
Please check out these recent articles:
Wake-up call

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If the US and Iraq do go to war, there can only be one winner, can't there? Maybe not. This summer, in a huge rehearsal of just such a conflict - and with retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper playing Saddam - the US lost. Julian Borger asks the former marine how he did it "


A former member of Tony Blair's cabinet has this to say about the war on Iraq:

The real goal is the seizure of Saudi oil

pema    pema@global-dialog.org
09/13/02 17:38:54 GMT

Sign a petition against war on Iraq here:

http://www.moveon.org/nowar/

08/30/02 17:03:15 GMT
Some background on the Iraq situation:

http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4375878,00.html
http://www.iacenter.org/lies.htm
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/19/ritter/index_np.html
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RIT208A.html
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast/TerrorInUSA/faq/Iraq.asp
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa929d67d52.htm%20
http://www.nonviolence.org/iraq/

08/16/02 16:26:07 GMT