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War
Watch
BY
ELLEN KAISER
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RESOLVE TO END THE OCCUPATION
When President Bush went to the United Nations to demand action against
Iraq on Sept. 12, he asked, “Are Security Council resolutions to
be honored or cast aside without consequence?” Now it is time to
ask the President to honor the 45 U.N. resolutions that address protecting
Palestinian rights and ending Israeli occupation. An action alert can
be found at www.endtheoccupation.org.
NATIONAL
PRIORITITES
The head of the White House’s economic council estimated that a
war in Iraq will cost $100-200 billion and called it “nothing.”
The National Priorities Project (www.nationalpriorities.org) figures that
$100 billion could triple federal spending on K-12 education or provide
health care to every uninsured child for five years.
SECRECY
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
A federal judge again ruled that requiring secret hearings for Sept. 11
detainees is unconstitutional. In a suit filed by Muslim activist Rabih
Haddad to open his final deportation hearing, Judge Nancy Edmunds said
an open hearing ensures that “the government itself is honoring
the very democratic principles that the terrorists who committed the Sept.
11 atrocities sought to destroy.”
PEACE
ACTIVISTS GROUNDED
Peace activists are showing up on a federal no-fly list, intended to keep
terrorists off planes. Among the targets were Wisconsin anti-war activists,
a Green Party official from Maine and two War Times staff members,
Jan Adams and Rebecca Gordon. The activists emphasize that they support
airport security but oppose a list that includes dissenters.
WAR
KILLS
A U.S. Green Beret and a Filipino man died Oct. 2 when a bomb exploded
outside a bar in the Philippines. This was the first U.S. casualty since
January, when U.S. troops arrived in the Philippines to open a new front
of Bush’s “war on terrorism.”
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