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Stories from 2003-08-20

A Mission Imperiled

EDITORIAL | New York Times | August 20, 2003

"Yesterday's attack, the worst in U.N. history, was another sign that surly, chaotic postwar Iraq is becoming a magnet for terrorists. That is yet another consequence of the Iraq war that the Bush administration failed to anticipate, like the uncontrolled postwar looting, the delays in restoring water and electricity, the ambushes of American soldiers and the sabotage of infrastructure." [more]

How America Created a Terrorist Haven

Jessica Stern | New York Times | August 20, 2003

"America has created ... precisely the situation the Bush administration has described as a breeding ground for terrorists: a state unable to control its borders or provide for its citizens' rudimentary needs." [more]

IMF, World Bank 'to Quit Iraq'

Peter Spiegel and Farhan Bokhari | Financial Times | August 20, 2003

"The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are to pull their staff out of Iraq after the devastating bomb attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. Some countries that had been considering sending peacekeeping troops to Iraq might heighten their reluctance after the bomb blast." [more]

Magnet for Evil

Maureen Dowd | New York Times | August 20, 2003

"The Bush team has now created the very monster that it conjured up to alarm Americans into backing a war on Iraq. Before the Iraq war, the Bush team inflated the threats to America; since the war, the Bush team has deflated the threats to America." [more]

New Ashcroft Law Broadens Powers Further

Dean Schabner | ABC News | August 20, 2003

"The measure would give law enforcement increased subpoena powers and more leeway over wire-tap evidence and on classifying some drug offenses as terrorism. 'This bill would allow the government to prosecute most drug cases as terrorism cases,' [one congressional aide said]." [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.