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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (2819)	11/4/2002 1:16:53 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Americans in Baghdad Protest U.S. November 3, 2002, 10:47 AM EST BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Nearly two dozen Americans protested outside a Baghdad university Sunday against U.S. threats to attack Iraq. About 20 Americans from the Christian Peacemaker Team and Voices in the Wilderness carried banners demanding an end to U.N. sanctions and urging a halt of U.S. war plans. "We are here to stop the war before it begins," said Quinn Brisben, 68, of Chicago. He said the group, which has spent a week in Baghdad, does not support President Saddam Hussein nor excuse his atrocities. However, Brisben said the group does not view the people of Iraq as enemies and opposes American attacks against Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, which the U.S. administration maintains Saddam has developed in violation of U.N. orders. The Iraqis deny they have such weapons. "If this country is attacked, Saddam will probably be the safest person here," Brisben, a poet and retired history teacher, said. "We are here to protect the children of Iraq and to tell Iraqis that Americans are not their enemies." Only a few people, mostly reporters, gathered at a large courtyard of the Al-Mustansiriya Islamic University to watch the protest. Peggy Gish, 60, of Athens, Ohio, said the peace group told the Iraqis that "our country is not united" behind Bush over the Iraq issue. "I'm here because I can't sit idly as my government wants to start a war here," she said. The group, which is leaving Iraq on Monday, visited Baghdad hospitals and orphanages and talked to Iraqi officials. Members of the group have traveled around the world to promote peace. newsday.com