Ploughshares Monitor, June 22nd, 2003
In January 2003 we issued a statement, Prepare for Peace in Iraq, with the Canadian Council of Churches and Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives. In rejecting the resort to war, the statement did not claim that easy solutions were available. "We know," the signatories said, "that simply avoiding war will not solve the fundamental problems of Iraq. ... Peace and justice require more than the absence of war." The statement went on to say that "the tragedy of Iraq has been decades in the making," and that whether or not war could be averted, "the road to genuine transformation will b...
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