October 4, 2002

Intellectual Warfare

By SCOTT MCLEMEE

Scholars launch pre-emptive strikes against a war with Iraq

Two groups of American scholars have issued statements questioning the Bush administration's legal and moral authority to initiate the use of force against Iraq. First, a delegation of historians presented a petition to members of Congress calling on the legislature "to assume [its] Constitutional responsibility to debate and vote on whether or not to declare war on Iraq." Later, 100 Christian scholars concerned with ethical

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