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Just War? U.S. Invasion of Iraq
April 2, 2003
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President Bush said in his March 17, 2003, address -- two days before the beginning of the invasion of Iraq -- that "the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war." Why, then, did US officials attempt to coerce other members of the United Nations Security Council to support US war efforts? Or, why has the United States rejected statements by UN inspectors and high-level Iraqi defectors that there's no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the U.S. push toward war. We also examine US plans to develop and potentially use so-called mini-nukes.
Featuring:
Voices of peace activists in New York City and Austin, Texas; Bill Fletcher, president of TransAfrica Forum and co-chair of United for Peace and Justice; Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; Marjorie Cohn, executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild; John Barry, national security correspondent for Newsweek magazine; Jim Nareckas, editor of Extra! a publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; Imad Khadduri, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist; Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation; Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group; David Schweigler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
For more information:
Marjorie Cohn
National Lawyers Guild
www.nlg.org
Bill Fletcher
TransAfrica Forum
1426 21st Street, NW
Second Floor
Washington, DC 20036
tel: 202.223.1960
info@transafricaforum.org
www.transafrica.org
Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
733 15th St NW, Suite 1020
Washington DC, 20005
tel: (202) 234-9382
www.ips-dc.org
Jim Naureckas
Extra!
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
112 W. 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212-633-6700
fair@fair.org
www.fair.org
Greg Mello
Los Alamos Study Group
212 East Marcy Street, Suite 10
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
tel: 505-982-7747
gmello@lasg.org
www.lasg.org
Imad Khadduri
tel: 905-943-2622 imad.khadduri@rogers.com
http://www.redress.btinternet.co/uk/ikhadduri.htm