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Stories from 2002-02-10
"An Afghan warlord who led the worst factional fighting since the fall of the Taliban vowed Sunday to fight rather than step down as governor of an eastern province." [more]
"Last Monday, to back that explicit threat, [Bush] announced an increase in US military spending of 15 per cent, the biggest in 20 years, more than double the military spending in all of the European Union. The rise will be $36 billion this year, $48 billion next year and $120 billion over the next five years, rising to a staggering two trillion over the next five years." [more]
"After a year of internal divisions and military diversions, serious planning is underway within the Bush administration for a campaign against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein." [more]
President Pervez Musharraf criticized President Bush's remarks about declaring Iran and Iraq as axis of evil. "The extensive US military presence here should end as soon as events in Afghanistan permit," he said. [more]
"The Karzai administration has called for the disarming of groups like Hotak's men, but he says he cannot lay down his weapons until he is confident the central government can provide security. 'We respect this new government,' he said. 'But I am the one who must protect my people against bandits and other threats.'Ý" [more]
"German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in remarks published Sunday that he has received assurances from President Bush the United States has no intention of attacking Iraq." [more]
"Britain revealed its increasing irritation with America over the war against terrorism yesterday when senior Government sources said that hawkish elements in the White House were using 'unnecessarily belligerent' language." [more]
"Ý'Tell me why our homes were destroyed and 55 people ó even little children ó are dead?' asked an angry young man named Gul Nabi, standing in December among the 15 obliterated houses of a village named Madoo. 'There were no Arabs here," he said, referring to Al Qaeda fighters. 'There were only farmers who lived a good life and prayed to Allah for peace.'Ý" [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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