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A Time Comes When Silence Is Betrayal

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T h e D o v e A d P r o j e c t

Hearty thanks to everyone who donated to this project and who worked for it! We have been successful beyond our dreams! In September a first round of ads appeared in religious periodicals like the Christian Century, the National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners and other publications. Now we are in our final phase.

On Sunday, October 24, a 1/4 page Dove Ad appeared on the Op Ed page of the New York Times. We also had similar ads in the A section of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

On Thursday, October 28, we placed a full-page ad in two Ohio newspapers, the Columbus Dispatch and the Dayton Daily News.

Watch this space for where we go from here.

We have broken the silence. Let's keep going!

A Call to Recover

America's Moral Character

We are Christians from different communions.
And citizens who span the political spectrum.

We grieve that our nation is not standing for “liberty and justice for all,” nor treating Iraqis as we would be treated. We believe that accountability begins at home, that wise leaders know their mistakes, and that honest leaders admit them. Fear and resentment will never guide us to a just and lasting peace. Any nation that hopes to be “under God” must live for a positive vision of world community, not a blind response to terrorism that tragically makes others see us as if we were terrorists ourselves.

We appeal to the American people to join us in prayer, understanding and action:

The war on Iraq is not a just war. It did not pass the test when it was started. And it does not pass the test now.

War is the most extreme action a society can take. It should only be unleashed after exploring every other road.

But all roads were not explored before we started this ill-considered war.
Supposedly we went to war:

To eliminate weapons of mass destruction. But there were no weapons of mass destruction.

To sever the connections between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. But there were no connections to sever.

To establish democracy. But in truth we have still done little to grant “full sovereignty” to Iraq, and much to keep the country under our control.

To remove a brutal regime. But we allowed torture cells to exist, including sexual humiliation – and shamelessly photographed the results.

The time has come to bring this unjust and ill-considered war to an end.

How many more American troops will lose their lives? How many more innocent Iraqis will be killed and maimed and made homeless? How many more bitter enemies and future terrorists will arise from our misguided efforts?

Since polls show that most Iraqis want us to leave, why are we building as many as 14 new military bases there and establishing the world's largest embassy?

More and more experts agree* that there is no military solution in sight.
We call immediately for:

A full investigation, by an independent body, into the abhorrent crimes at Abu Ghraib and other U.S. prisons.

A truly international peacekeeping force to be established by the United Nations.

A comprehensive plan for fair elections, humanitarian aid, and economic reconstruction, through the UN's Special Representative.

A clear timetable to end the occupation, not to perpetuate it by other means.

It is time for full accountability. And time to face reality about the war.

Initiating Endorsers :

James J. Buckley (Loyola College in Maryland), Mark S. Burrows (Andover Newton Theological School), Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School), William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (Riverside Church, retired), Robert F. Drinan, S.J. (Georgetown Law Center), Robert Edgar (NCCC), Clifford Green (Hartford Seminary), Richard B. Hays (Duke Divinity School), Stanley Hauerwas (Duke Divinity School), David Hollenbach, S. J. (Boston College), Marilyn McEntyre (Westmont College), Christopher Morse (Union Seminary NYC), Peter Paris (Princeton Seminary), Luis Rivera-Pagan (Princeton Seminary), Albert Raboteau (Princeton University), Duane Shank (Sojourners), Glen Stassen (Fuller Seminary), Lawrence M. Stratton (Princeton Seminary), Kathryn Tanner (Chicago Divinity School), Mark Lewis Taylor (Princeton Seminary), Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger (Princeton Seminary), Miroslav Volf (Yale Divinity School), Jim Wallis (Sojourners), William Werpehowski (Villanova), Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale Divinity School), Bill Wylie-Kellerman (Seminary Consortium of Chicago). Coordinator: George Hunsinger (Princeton Seminary). Affiliations for identification only.

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Church Folks for a Better America
a project of the Coalition for Peace Action
and the Peace Action Education Fund
40 Witherspoon Street
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*Including Gen. William E. Odom, Gen. Anthony Zinni, Gen. Joseph Hoar, Prof. Stanley Hoffman, Prof. Juan Cole, Dilip Hiro, Dr. Pauline H. Baker and many others. We make no claim about their views beyond what they say about the dire situation in Iraq.

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