| | The war-and-peace pages of this website are no longer being updated, but remain as a resource of previous articles and links. Some of the external links may no longer work. Proposed Alternatives ~  March 24 - U.S. Church Leaders
Meet Blair in Third of Five NCC-Led Peace Delegations
U.S. Church Leaders, in Rome, Ask Pope to Address Security Council - Tackling the 'inevitability'
defense
by Rose Berger. Sojourners. What do you do with 200,000 soldiers after you've called off the war? .... Conventional thinking (and the higher in a bureaucracy you go the more conventional the thinking gets) says that the United States is now committed to war with Iraq, even if tens of millions of people and most of the world's governments are against it. You don't send 200,000 troops to staging areas in the Mediterranean, Kuwait, and Jordan only to call them back without a fight. - A National Teach-In on the War on Iraq From Sojourners, www.sojo.net, is a Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice. Can Saddam Hussein be disarmed without war? What role can nonviolence play in bringing justice and democracy to the region? What are the real reasons for the rush to war? Will war lessen—or increase—the threat of terrorism in this country? Are there alternatives to war?
- An Alternative to War By Jimmy Carter, Former U.S. President, Nobel Laureate. Jan 31, 2003 "Despite marshalling powerful armed forces in the Persian Gulf region and a virtual declaration of war in the State of the Union message, our government has not made a case for a preemptive military strike against Iraq, either at home or in Europe...."
| |
