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...Bush's sudden switch two weeks ago from a defensive to an offensive strategy has raised all sorts of questions. Have sanctions been given enough time to work? Is the U.S. shouldering too much of the burden? Should the President proceed without approval from Congress? "It's not an antiwar movement so much as it is a process question, a sense that we should be debating the issues more before we act," says the Rev. William Phillippe of the Presbyterian Church's committee on social-witness policy...
...Attorney General and antiwar activist went to Baghdad to campaign for peace and to urge George Bush...
...that debate should not be dominated by the antiwar critics, as the front and op-ed pages have been in the past few days. In a full-fledged congressional debate, one may hope, the case for war will be argued more forcefully and cogently than an oddly tongue-tied Bush Administration has lately managed to do. And there is a compelling case for war. Yes, even if one believes, as I do, that it will probably not be won in a week or so by heavy bombing, but may turn into a long, bloody and disruptive struggle with major casualties...
...says the antiwar faction, Saddam can be turned back without war, by persistence in the embargo. If only that were true! All too probably, those who make this argument are deluding themselves. Far more likely, if Iraq is still occupying Kuwait next Aug. 2, a year after the invasion, much of the world will conclude that Saddam has won. The embargo will begin leaking badly; nation after nation will start casting around for a diplomatic solution; Washington itself will be under growing pressure to bring G.I.s home from Saudi Arabia where they will have been "sitting around in the sand...
Across the nation, a small but growing antiwar movement has started to mobilize. The most significant figures in this emerging debate are the leaders of Congress, who were curiously quiescent on the subject during the election campaign. They have begun to question Bush's course, particularly his unwillingness to seek congressional approval in advance for offensive military operations. Some lawmakers are motivated mainly by partisan politics; others seem most concerned with protecting their constitutional prerogatives...