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Stories from 2003-08-02

Meet the Real WMD Fabricator

Alexander Cockburn | CounterPunch | August 2, 2003

"In fact Ekeus was perfectly well aware from the mid-l990s on that Saddam Hussein had no such weapons of mass destruction. They had all been destroyed years earlier, after the first Gulf war. Ekeus learned this in 1995 from the lips of General Hussein Kamel, who had just defected from Iraq, along with some of his senior military aides." [more]

United States Cool to UN Vote on Iraq

Vernon Loeb and Colum Lynch | Washington Post | August 2, 2003

"The administration is not seeking a second resolution because it is satisfied with the financial and peacekeeping assistance it is getting from other countries willing to participate without a broader U.N. mandate." [more]

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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.