On Alternet's website on March 13, this ominously titled article appeared. The author brings up good points, and he doesn't hesitate to criticize the peace movement for sins of omission, but he also has some excellent suggestions for a way forward.
"'Bush Wins': The Left's Nightmare Scenario" by Mark LeVine
"If the movement doesn't move with full effort to lay the groundwork for a Bush Wins scenario the massive organizing and consciousness raising of the last year could well prove fleeting, forcing the movement to start from scratch in mobilizing public opinion a year or two down the road when the chickens of an over-extended empire come home to roost. "
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"Yet when a meeting of antiwar organizers in Cairo last December had the moral temerity to 'admit' only to 'restrictions on democratic development in Iraq' in comparison to Israeli and American crimes, doesn't anyone remember the genocidal Anfal of 1988, where upwards of 100,000 Kurds were killed in Iraq? We see how easy it will be for President Bush to seize the high ground by focusing on Hussein's crimes and supposedly protecting Israel, especially once a successful invasion reveals documentation of the extent of his crimes against his own people. "
