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Your front page story on March 20 reports that I have “recently come out in favor of war.” (News, “Just Before Attacks, Experts Weigh War??s Costs, Benefits?...
There is a moderate response to war??one that deserves to be acknowledged rather than co-opted by this campus’ organized extremes. There are those like myself who dislike the prospect of war, but believe that war is the only way to deal with a murderous dictator who has continually trampled on U.N. resolutions and has the potential to unleash unimaginable terror with weapons of mass-destruction...
Scarry, who suggested that military intervention in Iraq better matched “the model of torture than the model of war?? in a speech at the rally, said she did not want her students to be punished academically because of their political beliefs...
This war will bring violence and destruction to Iraq, not peace and democracy. If all goes according to U.S. plans, 3,000 precision-guided bombs and 600-800 cruise missiles will be dropped in the first 48 hours of the war??10 times the number of missiles launched in the entire 39 days of the 1991 Gulf War. This massive bombing campaign to “shock and awe” Iraq into quick submission will undoubtedly result in the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, in addition to the more than 150,000 Iraqis killed during...
...this war??s wake, the Bush administration has planned to contract Iraq’s rebuilding to private, exclusively American corporations—including a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s very own Halliburton. Experienced non-profit and international organizations will largely be bypassed. Judging on how it has reneged on most of its commitments to liberated Afghanistan, the U.S.’s pledge to fund Iraq’s rebuilding and help alleviate its current humanitarian crisis is dubious at best. We should not let ourselves be duped again by public-relations farces...