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Congress was just beginning to debate the Administration's gulf policy last week, but thousands of Americans have been voicing their antiwar views for months at marches, teach-ins and vigils around the country. With Jan. 15 approaching, protest organizers are hoping to ignite a bonfire of dissent against any U.S. military action. Said Dennis Murphy, an antiwar demonstrator in Charlotte, N.C.: "These politicians are the people who gave us Vietnam, Watergate, the deficit, the savings and loan crisis, and 'Read my lips.' Are we supposed to stand back and say, 'Oh, go ahead and do what you want...
...decade and the loss of 58,000 American lives before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front are already in the throes of a full-scale antiwar movement. Bush's attempt to fill the conceptual vacuum left by the end of the cold war with talk about a new world order apparently works better in the United Nations than in the United States...
Germany has pledged $2.2 billion to support the coalition, but militarily it is comfortably noninvolved. None of its soldiers have been or will be sent to the gulf, and virtually all the German hostages returned from Iraq two weeks ago. There have been only minor antiwar demonstrations. Fuel-price increases have failed to stimulate debate: long before the current crisis, Bonn imposed heavy gasoline taxes to encourage conservation; thus higher costs for crude only marginally affected German pump prices, which run in excess...
This accusation, along with recent antiwar protests and the action of some members of Congress to seek a court order that would require the president to get Congressional approval to attack Iraq have counter effects on the possibility of a peaceful settlement...
President Bush's shifting rationales for his policy are designed to unsettle Saddam Hussein, but they have also rattled Americans. A new antiwar movement is awakening both in Congress and on Main Street. -- Noriega asks the Supreme Court to drop his case because the government tapped his phone calls. -- The Keating Five on the griddle...