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Some informative
articles...
There
is more information on the internet and elsewhere than could possibly
be indexed here but some articles stand out. Those below are just a few
of the more informative. Please feel free to contact us if you have
more suggestions.
8 May 2003 - Anatol Lieven: "A
Trap of Their Own Making" - London Review of Books
Today, overwhelming military advantage is possessed not by a set of
competing Western states, but by one state alone. What use will the
Bush Administration make of its military dominance, especially in the
Middle East. The next question is when and in what form resistance to
US domination over the Middle East will arise. That there will be
resistance is certain. It would be contrary to every historical
precedent to believe that such a quasi-imperial hegemony will not stir
up resentment, which sooner or later is bound to find an effective
means of expression.
20 March 2003 - George Monbiot:
"Wilfully blind to the empire" - The Guardian Weekly
"Why do the supporters of this war find it so hard to see what is
happening?" asks Monbiot. "Why do the liberal interventionists who fear
that President Saddam might one day deploy a weapon of mass destruction
refuse to see that Bush is threatening to do just this against an
ever-growing number of states?".
13 March 2003 - Prime
Minister's address to the National Press Club
A useful resource document illustrating the evasions, distortions and
omissions used by the government to sidestep the clear wishes of the
Australian people - the people it claims to represent.
6 March 2003 - Perry Anderson:
"Casuistries of Peace and War" - London Review of Books
A debate about some of the arguments for and against war on Iraq and
some rather caustic comments on the power structure within the United
Nations and the prior special treatment accorded to Iraq.
New York Times, 27 February
2003 - John Brady Kiesling: Letter of resignation - New York Times
In a powerful letter of resignation, American diplomat Keisling
questions whether "oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate so long as they
fear) has become the American government's motto.
6 February, 2003 - Ronan
Bennett and Alice Perman: "Don't let the facts get in the way" - The
Guardian
We know from experience that politicians about to go to war are not
above manipulating information to heat up public opinion. Bennett and
Perman ask whether we should accept uncritically what governments tell
us.
1 February, 2003 - Phillip
Adams: "And finally: Be alarmed!" - The Australian
Adams argues that as we shuffle down the road to war like zombies, the
necessary debate is being censored by governments, muffled by a
compliant media and accepted by numbed, distracted and acquiescent
societies.
30 November, 2002 - John
Pilger: Speech, Sydney
Pilger reminds us that in our democratic opposition to this attack, it
is we who are the moderates, the government the extremists.
3 October 2002 - Anatol Lieven:
"The Push for War" - London Review of Books
Lieven considers the ambitions of the conservative nationalists in the
US Administration.
Medical Association for
Prevention of War - Australia: "Collateral Damage: the health and
environmental costs of war on Iraq"
Credible estimates of the total possible deaths on all sides during the
conflict and the following three months range from 48,000 to over
260,000. Civil war within Iraq could add another 20,000 deaths.
Additional later deaths from post-war adverse health effects could
reach 200,000. If nuclear weapons were used the death toll could reach
3,900,000. In all scenarios the majority of casualties will be
civilians.
Letter to all Members of the House of
Representatives and Senators, 17 March 2003 - Pat Boland.
Perhaps this will encourage others... There is ample resource material available. Contact AVAW if you
want ideas or advice.
Let us not resign ourselves to injustice and
falsehoods.
Write to MPs expressing your opposition. For preference, use your own
words, and target particularly those advocating war.
Links to some other Australian sites against war
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