No War

Central Committee for Conscientious Objection
If you are having doubts about serving the in military, or are opposed to being drafted into service, this is the website for the CCCO, which has counseled young men about alternatives to military service and conscientious objection since 1948.

No War Collective
The No War Collective is by Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen

It Isn't Just Iraq

The Case Against War

Who Served?

A serious and well-thought out rebuttal of the case for war.

International A.N.S.W.E.R.
"Act Now to Stop War and End Racism"

Common Dreams

United For Peace

Talking Points Against the War

Not In Our Name

An Open Letter to the Members of Congress
This is from "The Nation"

Iraq Peace Team

Peace Pledge

The No War Collective

The Depleted Uranium Bombs the US is using

The government's case
From the New York Times.

CNN Report
For weeks now, Administration officials have been playing up this speech as Bush's big opportunity to ‹'make his case'. But while the marketing has been stellar, the case itself simply hasn't been made. In his speech Bush released no new intelligence and made no novel arguments. Instead, he rolled out a laundry list of old grievances and half-truths. According to CNN, many of the allegations the Bush White House made about Iraq are entirely unsubstantiated, or are based on the testimony of sworn enemies of Saddam Hussein.

'Questions that Won't Be Asked About Iraq'
By Rep. Ron Paul

Soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned there are some questions that won't be asked and maybe will not even be allowed to be asked. Here are some questions I would like answered by those who are urging us to start this war.

1. Is it not true that the reason we did not bomb the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War was because we knew they could retaliate?

2. Is it not also true that we are willing to bomb Iraq now because we know it cannot retaliate ? which just confirms that there is no real threat?

3. Is it not true that those who argue that even with inspections we cannot be sure that Hussein might be hiding weapons, at the same time imply that we can be more sure that weapons exist in the absence of inspections?

4. Is it not true that the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency was able to complete its yearly verification mission to Iraq just this year with Iraqi cooperation?

5. Is it not true that the intelligence community has been unable to develop a case tying Iraq to global terrorism at all, much less the attacks on the United States last year? Does anyone remember that 15 of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and that none came from Iraq?

6. Was former CIA counter-terrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro wrong when he recently said there is no confirmed evidence of Iraq^³s links to terrorism?

7. Is it not true that the CIA has concluded there is no evidence that a Prague meeting between 9/11 hijacker Atta and Iraqi intelligence took place?

8. Is it not true that northern Iraq, where the administration claimed al-Qaeda were hiding out, is in the control of our "allies," the Kurds?

9. Is it not true that the vast majority of al-Qaeda leaders who escaped appear to have safely made their way to Pakistan, another of our so-called allies?

10. Has anyone noticed that Afghanistan is rapidly sinking into total chaos, with bombings and assassinations becoming daily occurrences; and that according to a recent UN report al-Qaeda "is, by all accounts, alive and well and poised to strike again, how, when, and where it chooses"?

11. Why are we taking precious military and intelligence resources away from tracking down those who did attack the United States ? and who may again attack the United States ? and using them to invade countries that have not attacked the United States?

12. Would an attack on Iraq not just confirm the Arab world's worst 24. Are you familiar with the 1994 Senate Hearings that revealed the U.S. knowingly supplied chemical and biological materials to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war and as late as 1992, including after the alleged Iraqi gas attack on a Kurdish village?

25. Did we not assist Saddam Hussein's rise to power by supporting and encouraging his invasion of Iran? Is it honest to criticize Saddam now for his invasion of Iran, which at the time we actively supported?

26. Is it not true that preventive war is synonymous with an act of aggression, and has never been considered a moral or legitimate US policy?

27. Why do the oil company executives strongly support this war if oil is not the real reason we plan to take over Iraq?

28. Why is it that those who never wore a uniform and are confident that they won^³t have to personally fight this war are more anxious for this war than our generals?

29. What is the moral argument for attacking a nation that has not initiated aggression against us, and could not if it wanted?

30. Where does the Constitution grant us permission to wage war for any reason other than self-defense?

31. Is it not true that a war against Iraq rejects the sentiments of the time-honored Treaty of Westphalia, nearly 400 years ago, that countries should never go into another for the purpose of regime change?

32. Is it not true that the more civilized a society is, the less likely disagreements will be settled by war?

33. Is it not true that since World War II Congress has not declared war and ? not coincidentally ? we have not since then had a clear-cut victory?

34. Is it not true that Pakistan, especially through its intelligence services, was an active supporter and key organizer of the Taliban?

35. Why don't those who want war bring a formal declaration of war resolution to the floor of Congress?

Ron Paul, M.D., represents the 14th Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives.

Where is Iraq?
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