When we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the “intelligence” that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness.
Are we so morally sick, so deaf and dumb and blind, that we do not understand this? Are we so fearful, so in love with our own security and steeped in our own pain, that we are really willing to let people be tortured in the name of America?
—Ariel Dorfman, Sept. 22, 2006, Chilean American writer and professor at Duke University, in The Washington Post.
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Actions and resources for peace
- Roots of War: Section in our online library documenting the genesis of thinking by current leaders now involved in war with Iraq
- Petition opposing the war with Iraq, written by
the Helena Peace Seekers, and placed in several Montana newspapers prior to
the initiation of war in March, 2003, with donations from hundreds of
Montanans throughout the state.
We, the undersigned, express our opposition to our country’s war with Iraq. We are concerned that the case for war has not been made by the Bush administration and that sending American soldiers into harm’s way in Iraq is not justified. We are also concerned about the likelihood of high casualties among the civilian population of Iraq, and the possibility of increased terrorism as the result of our actions. We urge this administration, and our congressional delegation, to pursue diplomatic, non-military means to resolve our disputes with Iraq.
Last modified: September 24 2006