March 19. 2003
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A C a ll f o r P e a c e Poised for War
continued
from Front
w hose ci
w ithin the U nited N ations Security
series o f steps at home to protect against
C ouncil, said the action Bush had c h o
terrorist attacks.
sen would underm ine future efforts at
“We know that our interests have
peaceful disarm am ent. "Iraq does not
been attacked abroad. And we should
represent today an im m ediate threat
prepare for potential attacks, either here
that would ju stify an im m ediate w ar,"
or abroad at this tim e," said Homeland
he said.
Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
German Chancel lor Gerhard Schroeder
The plan, dubbed “ O peration L ib
said much the same thing, and said U.N.
erty S hield,” heightens security at
weapons inspectors should have more
the n atio n ’s borders, at airp o rts, sea
time to try to disarm Iraq of weapons of
ports and railw ays, at nuclear and
mass destruction.
chem ical plans and elem ents o f the
But by Bush's word, laid down in a
n atio n ’s food supply and d istrib u
stem speech Monday night, the time for
tion system . Ridge said governors
diplomacy - and weapons inspections -
are being asked to deploy N ational
had clearly come and gone.
G uard troops or extra state police to
Arab League Secretary-General Anu-
help.
Moussa scrapped plans for a last-minute
At the State D epartm ent, S ecre
peacemaking trip to Iraq. And the U.N.
tary o f State C olin Pow ell said 30
peacekeepers boarded a plane out of Iraq,
n a tio n s
h ad
jo in e d
th e
their mission at an end.
ad m in istra tio n ’s “co alitio n o f the
For his part, the Iraqi leader appeared
w illing,” and that another 15 had q u i
on television wearing a military uniform
etly pledged support.
for the first time since the Persian G ulf
At least two o f the 30 nations, Spain
War in 1991.
and the Netherlands, have explicitly
Iraq s al-Shabab television, owned by
ruled out the use o f troops to invade
one of Saddam 's sons, said the decision
Iraq, though. Another, Japan, was iden
to defy Bush’s ultimatum was made in a
tified as only a post-conflict member of
leadership meeting chaired by the Iraqi
the coalition.
leader.
With war looming in the Persian Gulf,
“The pathetic Bush was hoping ... to
the diplomatic and political fallout
achieve his evil targets without a fight.”
circled the globe.
it said. "...The march of struggle will con
In London, the House of Commons
tinue against the American, English and
debated British Prime Minister Tony
Zionist aggressors.”
Blair’s strong endorsement of Bush’s
In his speech the day before. Bush had
policy. "The Liberal Democrats, unified
demanded that Saddam and his two sons
as ever in opportunism and error,” the
leave Iraq within 48 hours or face inva
prime minister snapped at one point.
sion. “The tyrant will soon be gone," the
French President Jacques C hirac,
president said.
continued
dom Rides and the famous
march from Selma to Mont
gomery when participants
were beaten severely. He
was jailed more than 40
times. •
The fallout from that
march resulted in the Civil
Rights Act and the Voting
Rights Act o f 1965.
“We didn't strike back,”
Lewis said of being attacked
by the Ku Klux Kian, the
police and countless angry
mobs. “We accepted non
violence as a way o f peace,
a way o f living”
Lewis recalled the speech
made by President Johnson
after the violence o f Bloody
Sunday.
“ He co n d e m n e d the
photo by D avid P lechl /T he P ortland O bser '
violence and introduced
Sam Jackson o f Holy Redeemer Office of Ethnic Affairs has been a life long fan o f John
the voting rights act. He
Lewis. “He reminds us a lot of Dr. King,’ he said.
said, 'W e shall overcom e,
we shall overcom e,” ’ Lewis said. "M ar
tin Luther King was sitting next to him
Nothing has unsettled me more in the last 40 years
and tears cam e dow n his face.”
than what is about to happen now. We must tell our
Lewis said it would take a non-violent
government to use our resources to build and not to kill.
revolution o f values and ideas to forge a
- Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis
lasting global peace. New leaders and
new participants will have to step forward
he added.
Lewis called the war in Iraq a distrac
now,” Lewis said. “We must tell our gov
“If we believe in democracy surely we
tion from dom estic issues and a drain
ernment to use our resources to build and
must work to make it happen," he said.
on the future o f A m erica’s children.
not to kill."
“We need to get in the way and push and
“Nothing has unsettled me more in the
Lewis' speech was followed by a stand
pull.”
last 40 years than what is about to happen
ing ovation.
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Confrontation on the Bridge
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arrest was made. The sanctioned march and rally drew a crowd estimated between 20,000 and
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