Mirror Sites:
CSUDH - Habermas - UWP - Archives
Practice Module on This File

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Soka University Japan - Transcend Art and Peace
Created: October 6 2002
Latest Update: October 6, 2002
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

On War with Iraq

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, September 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.

Now we need the forums on public discourse. Now. Before a war that cannot but commit us in ways we may never have intended. This article in the New York Times speaks of our need to begin serious governance discussions in which we realize that we ARE complicit in what our nation does. 9/11 Looms in Nation's Debate on Iraq By Blaine Harden with Peter Kilborn. New York Times. October 5, 2002. Backup 1 Backup 2, The story that goes with the Multimedia Interactive Feature on Mood Across America. Link added October 5, 2002.

"Samples from interviews along Interstate 80, in cities and small towns, about last year's attacks and a war in Iraq." The New York Times. October 5, 2002. Multimedia Interactive Feature: The Mood Across America.

"It is a bit embarrassing that we don’t talk about the war more. We have a pretty comfortable life here.” Helena Payne. Student, University of Notre Dame. New York Times. Photo by G. Paul Burnett, New York Times.

jeanne's comments: I am particularly impressed that Helena Payne recognizes and feels the need for a serious public forum. So do I. I hope Notre Dame listens in good faith to her vlidity claim.

“This year is our biggest membership recruitment year in a while. I’m very hopeful seeing the response that we’ve gotten from the general public. But going up against the Bush administration is very daunting.” Aaron Campbell. Major gifts director, California Peace Action, Berkeley, Calif. Photo by Randi Lynn Beach for The New York Times.