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Kerry: I Wouldn't Respond to Nuclear Attack John Kerry told Democrats gathered in Boston two weeks ago that he defended his country as a young soldier in Vietnam and he would defend it again as president. But as Michael Dukakis' lieutenant governor, Kerry authored an executive order that said the state of Massachussetts would refuse to take part in any civil defense efforts in response to a nuclear attack on America. The presidential candidate was an ardent proponent of the nuclear freeze at the time, and viewed Cold War civil defense preparations as an attempt to delude the American people...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)--Peace activist David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven arrested and tried for their part in the violent anti-war protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, has died at 88. Dellinger died Tuesday, said Peggy Rocque, administrator of Heaton Woods, the Montpelier retirement home where the activist had been living. Dellinger was a pacifist who devoted much of his life to protesting. A member of the Old Left whose first arrest came in the 1930s during a union-organizing protest at Yale, he was a generation older than his Yippie co-defendants in the Chicago Seven case. ``Mainly I think...

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot his whole life, which created an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him frail. With his odd diet, he suffered from very bad breath. This made him .... Wait for it... ... A super-callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis!

Augustine's "just war" theory continues to guide the West.The fall of Rome in 410 was a calamity of staggering proportions to the citizens of the Roman Empire. Civilization itself had been shaken to its foundations. So it was viewed by Augustine, from his vantage point on the North African coast. But he worried not so much about the empire as about the threat of a backlash to Christianity. Hadn't critics warned for years that Christians' pacifism would weaken the empire? Didn't this confirm the fears that Christianity was too other-worldly for its followers to be responsible citizens of the state?...

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In his interview with the Monitor, Howard Dean repeated his contention that Saddam Hussein's recent capture had made America no safer. "My opponents spent the week criticizing me for that, which I think was to their detriment" since the federal government had just increased the terror alert level to orange, indicating an elevated risk of an attack. But he said two other recent events had benefited national security: the capture of a ship loaded with drugs in the Persian Gulf - "which is almost certainly how al-Qaida is partly financing their operations," Dean said - and Libya's decision to declare...

Candidate: Howard Dean Category: Foreign Policy Grade: D Howard Dean's new ad in Iowa is a lot like the candidate himself: blunt. The ad shows a picture of Congressman Richard Gephardt, Dean's chief rival, standing with President Bush at the White House on October 2--the day Bush and his supporters announced that they had secured congressional support for waging war with Iraq. Says the voice-over, "October 2002. Dick Gephardt agrees to co-author the Iraq war resolution, giving George Bush the authority to go to war. A week later, with Gephardt's support, it passes Congress." Next the narrator mentions that Gephardt...

Support for the Palestinian cause  -- which usually means all Palestinian demands for an independent state and the right of return of Palestinians to Israel -- has become a major item on the political agenda of the Left in most Western countries. In demonstrations against globalism or the war in Iraq, there are pro-Palestinian contingents; on American college campuses pro-Palestinian organizations (often allied with Islamic ones) thrive. "Solidarity groups" visit the West Bank and Gaza and often interpose themselves between rioting or demonstrating Palestinians and Israeli troops. Sometimes they join the demonstrators. They are also deployed around the headquarters of...

... The average Frenchman listening to state-run France Inter radio or Antenne 2 television during the first week of the war in Iraq saw the United States spiraling toward a humiliating defeat, and Bush, the "cowboy" president, headed for ignominy if not impeachment. In tones that mixed elation and awe, newsmen and pundits began speculating on how the Middle East would look the day after the United States lost the war against Saddam. Wouldn't this dramatic display of U.S. vulnerability encourage other nations and terrorist groups to challenge overrated U.S. military might?...

JESUS is not a Pacifist. By Darren Morrison The Jesus of the Bible, the one that the four gospels are about, the very one the Bible testifies about, was not a pacifist. The ultra liberal churches like the Unitarians and Quakers tout Jesus as being some feminine pacifist. The ultra liberal so-called churches make Jesus in the image they want regardless of what the bible teaches. To them Jesus was just a happy go lucky hippie, hardly anything holy in that. How can we tell how Jesus is and was? By careful examination of his perfect word. The very same...

Since the three female American soldiers initially fell into enemy hands in Iraq, the media have worked hard to quell any backlash against women being deployed in combat. Consequently, a full exploration of the implications involved has been scrupulously avoided.

In the weeks leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, American college campuses were plastered with posters asking “What Would Gandhi Do?” The implication, of course, was that the U.S. should emulate the tactics of the celebrated Hindu pacifist who successfully led the movement for Indian independence from Britain. The analogy, it should go without saying, overlooks major differences between the two cases. Whereas the 20th-century British were far too benign an imperial power to choose to slaughter peaceful resisters to their rule, there’s no evidence that Saddam Hussein, already responsible for the massacre and torture of hundreds of thousands of...

Neo-Communism By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | April 22, 2003 Wars are a test of citizens’ loyalty, commitment and political understanding; in providing this test the end of a war can be as illuminating as its beginning. It was a striking fact of the “anti-war” demonstrations against Operation Iraqi Freedom that the left was able to mobilize more protesters in three months – from the UN deadline of November 7 to the launch of the war in March – than the new left was able to mobilize in the first six years of the war in Vietnam. (The first of these...

A 34-year-old West Australian woman acting as a human shield in Baghdad says she will stay in the Iraqi capital even if bombs start dropping. Michelle Pule, from Perth, said she arrived in Iraq last week and would stay because she wanted to help the thousands of innocent Iraqis who would perish in any war. "I'm planning on staying and I think I will try and help in whatever way I can and whatever happens, happens," Ms Pule told ABC Radio. She has basic medical training but cannot speak Arabic. She said two other human shields left Iraq last week,...

I. Democracy, as every other historic ideal and institution, contains both ephemeral and more permanently valid elements. Democracy is on the one hand the characteristic fruit of a bourgeois civilization; on the other hand it is a perennially valuable form of social organization in which freedom and order are made to support, and not to contradict, each other. ...............The inadequacy of the presuppositions upon which the democratic experiment rests does not consist merely in the excessive individualism and libertarianism of the bourgeois world view; though it must be noted that this excessive individualism prompted a civil war in the whole...

With the ever increasing likelihood of war with Iraq, it's interesting, and kind of sad, to watch the so-called "peace" protesters reveal more and more of their true colors. For months now, the peaceniks have been claiming this was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was building "weapons of mass destruction." They also claimed that there was no proof that Iraq was tied to September 11 terrorist Osama bin Laden. Over and over they told us that we should let the U.N. Inspectors keep working. Then, along comes Secretary of State Colin Powell who, on February 5, makes a masterful speech...

I caught this as part of an article from the February 14 issue of Comic Buyer's Guide: The 411 mini-series will focus on non-violence as a solution to problems. Scheduled to be in stores on April 11 (4/11) for $3.50, the title is an anthology focused on that theme. (Marvel President and COO Bill) Jemas said, " 411 will be the most serious of books that we produce in the next year or so. The word '411' is a buzzword that kids use for 'information now,' and the information we want to convey is about people like Martin Luther King,...

No War Against Iraq George W. Bush has declared his intention to wage a so-called ‘preemptive’ war against Iraq and is now seeking to strong-arm the international community and the U.N. into support and submission. Congress rushed to rubber-stamp the war against the will of the people. A war of aggression violates the United States Constitution, the United Nations Charter, and the principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal. It violates the collective law of humanity that recognizes the immeasurable harm and unconscionable human suffering when a country engages in wars of aggression to advance its government’s perceived national interests. No Congressional...

Point Reyes Light - January 2, 2003Nude women protest war again; men also demonstrate By Ivan Gale Seeking to "reinvigorate the buzz across the country" from its first photo of women spelling "Peace" with their naked bodies, organizer Donna Sheehan and her group, Unreasonable Women Baring Witness, staged a second, much larger nude peace protest and photo shoot near Point Reyes Station on Sunday. The sandy shore of Drake’s Beach, rather than a rain-sogged Love Field in Point Reyes Station, was the venue for some 94 women along with more than two dozen men who created two new and...

NAKED MEN, MEN OF PEACE, December 21, 2002, FloridaContacts:Diane Cardin-Kamleiter, 727-822-1543Mark S. Kamleiter, 727-323-2555 (day) 727-822-1543 (eve)Linda Pollini, 352-246-4545 (cell) On December 21,2002, near Gainesville, Florida, 22 men posed naked to send a stunning Peace message to the American people and the war administration.  Braving the cold, these men from Fort Myers to Gainesville, gathered together on a hillside to do the unthinkable: To Bare it all for Peace.Deeply troubled by the looming war against Iraq, these serious peace advocates determined to express their heartfelt desire for peace, by crafting the word "PEACE" and the Peace Sign with their nude...