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...Staff calls for more serious debate about a war with Iraq. But its praise of the most unacademic of protests suggests that it is more truly interested in boisterous public opposition to the war??an agenda which the American people do not share, despite several peace rallies. A recent CBS-New York Times poll finds that two-thirds of Americans favor military action to remove Hussein from power. Unquestionably there should be vigorous debate about any military action, but the majority of Americans clearly understand what HIPJ and the Staff do not: that Iraq, and not the United...
Although the agenda for the meeting is not yet set, Richardson said she expects discussion to range from how to apply the stipulations of the Geneva Convention to distinguishing between civilians and military personnel to the definition of an appropriate objective of war??many of which are issues raised recently by President Bush’s ongoing war against terror...
Kravetz disagreed, saying that with the “drumbeats of war?? rallying support for Bush, Gore had slipped out of the limelight...
...cost, which is clear when civilian casualties of all peoples are counted equally. As in Afghanistan, in the discussion of the planned invasion of Iraq, the question of the number of expected Iraqi casualties has not even been raised. Until that question is discussed and the real cost of war??including precious foreign lives as well as precious American ones—can be considered, nobody should be inclined to support this war or any other...
...Tonight I’m going to the ‘Our grief is not a cry for war?? rally-vigil in Washington Square Park to gather with fellow New Yorkers to express our opposition to state terrorism in response to our tragedy,” Elfenbein wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “Tomorrow I’m going to a local church to participate in a ceremony where I will help to ring the bell 3,000 times to commemorate the victims of a year...