c2...take a look at the group where Wilson was speaking:
An Anti-War Movement-Education for Peace in Iraq...Wilson spoke to this group......
epic-usa.org
epic-usa.org
Their staff---Check out the backgrounds...all very left wing........and to add to the mix, quite a few Evangelical Churches to the mix...
And following through to another page.....
[From their who opposes the rush to war page. Womder how many of these people gave their permission to have their names used on this website>???................>]
Who opposes the rush to war with Iraq?
Veterans
Business leaders & Republicans
Former administration officials
Foreign policy analysts & diplomats
Intelligence analysts & weapons inspectors
Congressmen & other elected representatives
Labor unions & working people
Clergy & religious communities
Nobel laureates
Artists & writers
9-11 Victims' Families
The international community
Others
Veterans
Gen. Wesley Clark, U.S. Army (ret.), former NATO commander (WP, 1/31/03)
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander of coalition forces in Gulf War 1990-1991 (WP, 1/28/03)
Col. Mike Turner (ret.), former military planner with the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (Independent, 3/15/03)
Gen. Anthony Zinni, U.S. Marine (ret.), U.S. special envoy to Middle East, former head of U.S. Central Command (NPR, 8/23/02)
Kris Kristofferson and over 900 other war veterans, in letter to President Bush, "strongly question" Iraq invasion and seek a meeting with him (EPIC press release, 3/11/03)
Military Families Speak Out www.mfso.org
Veterans Against the Iraq War, endorsed by over 1700 veterans www.vaiw.org
Veterans for Common Sense, over 2500 veterans have joined www.VeteransForCommonSense.org
Veterans for Peace www.veteransforpeace.org
Business leaders & Republicans
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities (Wall Street Journal, 1/13/03)
World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland (Globe & Mail, 1/25/03)
George Soros, financier, billionaire-philanthropist (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/28/03)
Jack Walters, Missouri GOP Chairman, resigns over U.S. policy on Iraq. Read his resignation letter of 3/8/03.
Former administration officials
President Jimmy Carter (The Carter Center, 1/31/03; NYT, 3/9/03)
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 (Detroit Free Press, 10/24/02; Business Week, 12/23/02)
Warren Christopher, Secretary of State from 1993 to 1997 (NYT, 12/31/02)
Brent Scrowcroft, National Security Advisor from 1989 to 1993 (WSJ, 8/15/02)
Foreign policy analysts & diplomats
Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Report 12/31/02)
Morton Halperin, director of Open Society Institute - D.C., senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (Washington Diplomat, 1/15/03)
John Mearsheimer, distinguished service prof. of political science at the University of Chicago, codirector of Program in International Security Policy (Foreign Policy, Jan./Feb. 2003)
Stephen Walt, academic dean and prof. of international affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (Foreign Policy, Jan./Feb. 2003)
John Brown, U.S. Foreign Service officer from 1981 to 2003 (AFP, 3/11/03)
J. Brady Kiesling, U.S. Foreign Service officer at U.S. embassy in Greece under Pres. George W. Bush (NYT, 2/27/03)
Intelligence analysts & weapons inspectors
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, CIA veterans (CommonDreams.org, 2/7/03)
Richard Butler, former head of U.N. weapons inspections, UNSCOM 1997-1999 (Reuters, 1/28/03)
Rolf Ekeus, former head of U.N. weapons inspections, UNSCOM 1991-1997
Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine and U.N. weapons inspector, UNSCOM 1991-1998
Congressmen & other elected representatives
156 U.S. Congressmen voted against authorization for war (EPIC action alert, 10/18/02)
130 U.S. Representatives have urged Bush to back U.N. disarmament effort, diplomacy (Brown-Kind letter to the President, 1/24/03)
110 city and county councils and state legislative bodies have passed resolutions opposing war with Iraq. See the growing list at www.citiesforpeace.org (New York Times 2/1/03, 2/14/03)
Labor unions & working people
AFL-CIO, largest labor federation in the U.S., representing over 13 million union members. Read the AFL-CIO executive council resolution on Iraq, passed on 2/27/03. (CNN, 2/28/03)
U.S. Labor Against the War, endorsed by over 200 union locals and state, regional, and national labor bodies. See the growing list of labor organizations. (USLAW founding statement, 1/11/03; Labor Notes, Feb. 2003)
Clergy & religious communities
National Council of Churches www.ncccusa.org (Washington Post, 1/31/03)
Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (AP, 1/31/03)
Pope John Paul, II
Nobel laureates
41 American Nobel laureates in science and economics; including developers of the atom bomb and former national security and Pentagon officials. For the full list, see New York Times, 1/28/03.
Artists & writers
Artists United to Win Without War, including actors Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Carl Reiner and others. For full list, click here. (AP, 12/10/02)
Musicians United to Win Without War, including David Byrne, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews and others. For full list, click here. (Billboard, 2/28/03)
Poets Against the War. Sam Hamill, a reclusive former Marine turned poet, turned up an invitation to the White House to voice opposition to war with Iraq; and now over 10,000 poets have joined his voice of dissent at Poets Against the War. (Seattle P-I, 2/18/03)
Andy Rooney. Though put out by France's opposition, even Andy Rooney has stated he opposes war with Iraq. (60 Minutes, 2/16/03)
Arundhati Roy, distinguished writer (Guardian, 9/27/02)
9-11 Victims' Families
September 11th Family Members www.peacefultomorrows.org
The international community
France, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Canada, China, India, Russia, and many other countries.
The biggest supporter of war with Iraq at the U.N. is Britain despite the fact that 90% of British citizens oppose war with Iraq (poll taken 2/14/03). Tony Blair will soon be out of a job.
Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Laureate (BBC, 9/11/02)
Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia (Reuters, 1/24/03)
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. To date, over 1,800 RPCVs have signed on to ads that will run in the New York Times opposing war with Iraq.
Others
See our list of Non-Governmental Organizations and civic groups working to prevent war with Iraq here.
Updated on March 15, 2003. To suggest an addition to this page email aksfung@yahoo.com. |
