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please sign AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY OPPOSING A U.S. INVASION OF IRAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stephanie wei Wang)
Tue Sep 24 20:33:30 2002
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To: peace-announce@MIT.EDU, utr-announce@MIT.EDU, greens-announce@MIT.EDU,
mitai-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:33:07 -0400
From: stephanie wei Wang <sweiwang@MIT.EDU>
hello,
http://www.noiraqattack.org
"This Open Letter was originally written by faculty members at the University of Minnesota. It subsequently spread to other universities, and was placed on the web by faculty at MIT."
excerpt:
"We the undersigned members of the academic community are opposed to an invasion of Iraq by the United States. The decision to start a war is perhaps the most significant decision the leaders of a democracy can make. It requires ordering fellow citizens to kill and be killed in the name of the entire nation, in our names and in yours. For this decision to be just and legitimate, the reasons offered for war must be principled and arrived at through public debate. To date, the justifications offered by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Rice, their subordinates, or an array of commentators in the media do not justify a U.S. invasion of Iraq."
please forward to all relevant lists.
peace.
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Stephanie Wei Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
sweiwang@mit.edu
