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Stories from 2003-08-28

A Deadly Franchise

Naomi Klein | Guardian | August 28, 2003

"This appears to be the true message of Bush's war franchise: why negotiate with your political opponents when you can annihilate them? In the era of [the war on terrorism], concerns such as war crimes and human rights just don't register." [more]

Halliburton's Iraq Awards Worth $1.7b

Michael Dobbs | Washington Post | August 28, 2003

"The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations." [more]

US May Have Been 'Totally Duped' on Iraqi Weapons Intelligence

Bob Drogin | Los Angeles Times | August 28, 2003

"Although senior CIA officials insist that defectors were only partly responsible for the intelligence that triggered the decision to invade Iraq in March, other intelligence officials now fear that key portions of the prewar information may have been flawed. The issue raises fresh doubts as to whether illicit weapons will be found in Iraq." [more]

Voting Machine Controversy

Julie Carr Smyth | Cleveland Plain Dealer | August 28, 2003

"[A] letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. — who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush — prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election." [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.