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Stories from 2004-02-04

Detained Citizen Meets Lawyer After Two Years

Jerry Markon | Washington Post | February 4, 2004

"After a series of lower-court rulings, the government convinced a federal appeals court in Richmond that the military — and not the courts — had the sole authority to wage war and that courts should defer to battlefield judgments. More than 100 law professors and other legal experts weighed in on Hamdi's side, arguing that no U.S. citizen can be held without a lawyer." [more]

Media Access To Troops Can Be Denied

STAFF | Associated Press | February 4, 2004

"A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Pentagon has no constitutional obligation to provide the media access to U.S. troops during combat." [more]

Analysis: Missing WMD Politically Problematic

Tom Regan | Christian Science Monitor | February 4, 2004

Blair and Bush both continue to suffer from the near-total lack of evidence of WMD in Iraq. [more]

The Problem with 'Anyone But Bush'

T. Patrick Donovan | Dissident Voice | February 4, 2004

"For progressives to submerge ourselves within the ABB tidal wave is a complete abdication of our responsibility as global citizens to agitate around the issues facing this country and the world, rather than once again believing that our work is limited to simply voting for the president every four years." [more]

Analysis: The US Media and the Wall

David Bloom, Patrick Connors and Tom Wallace | Electronic Intifada | February 4, 2004

"The vast majority of what we hear and see in the US is about suicide bombing, and in both programs we see the depth of pain inflicted on Israelis by Palestinian suicide bombings through footage of their carnage, and disturbing, emotional scenes ... Although these are appalling scenes, they are certainly no less horrific or newsworthy than an Israeli apache helicopter firing missiles into crowds of civilians, or Israeli tanks killing and wounding Palestinian men, women and children." [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.