 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002 (XXXX 5) |
Medford Meeting (NJ) published an open letter to members of Congress as a full-page ad in The Central Record on September 12. The letter expressed deep concern about the intent of President Bush to forcibly remove Saddam Hussein from power through a direct military attack on Iraq. It offered practical questions about the consequences of the attack and provided contact information for Friends Committee on National Legislation and the American Friends Service Committee.
Green Street Meeting (PA) took out a half-page ad in a local newspaper to make known its opposition to war.
Millville Meeting (PA) sent an open letter to President Bush which was endorsed by Upper Susquehanna Quarterly Meeting. In the letter, the Meeting asked the president to find peaceful alternatives that would save lives and uphold American ideals.
Plymouth Meeting (PA) approved a letter to elected officials expressing disagreement with the president’s decision to use war and the threat of war to change conditions that threaten the United States. “We live in the knowledge that people of all faiths seek to live lives in obedience to God’s law of love even in the midst of the anger of this world,” the letter said. See the complete text.
Friends Committee on National Legislation has compiled a web page with many Quaker minutes and statements on Iraq: http://www.fcnl.org/issues/int/iraq_quakers-worldwide.htm In addition to current statements on the threatened war on Iraq, there are minutes opposing the decade-long economic sanctions on Iraq and the 1998 bombing of Iraq.
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