* Iraq UN Debate
MICHAEL RATNER, mratner@igc.org,
http://www.humanrightsnow.org
Ratner is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and coauthor of
"Against War with Iraq." A resolution with a March 17 deadline is reportedly being put forward to the Security Council. Ratner said today: "The U.S. government is clearly desperate to get some sort of cover for its war. No one has shown that Iraq is a threat. There's no self-defense here; Bush is just trying to find some sort of cover for naked aggression."
JAMES PAUL, james.paul@globalpolicy.org,
http://www.globalpolicy.org
Paul, executive director of the Global Policy Forum, monitors policy-making at the United Nations.
SUSAN WRIGHT, spwright@umich.edu,
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~spwright
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1999/mj99/mj99wright.html
Editor of the new book "Biological Warfare and Disarmament: New Problems/New Perspectives," Wright said today: "That any country could contemplate a warover weapons that have not been found would seem ludicrous if this scenario did not appear so close to happening.... Going to war opens the door to a lawless world - precisely the world that the U.N. and its Security Council were designed to exclude...."
MICHAEL RATNER, mratner@igc.org,
http://www.humanrightsnow.org
Ratner is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and coauthor of
"Against War with Iraq." A resolution with a March 17 deadline is reportedly being put forward to the Security Council. Ratner said today: "The U.S. government is clearly desperate to get some sort of cover for its war. No one has shown that Iraq is a threat. There's no self-defense here; Bush is just trying to find some sort of cover for naked aggression."
JAMES PAUL, james.paul@globalpolicy.org,
http://www.globalpolicy.org
Paul, executive director of the Global Policy Forum, monitors policy-making at the United Nations.
SUSAN WRIGHT, spwright@umich.edu,
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~spwright
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1999/mj99/mj99wright.html
Editor of the new book "Biological Warfare and Disarmament: New Problems/New Perspectives," Wright said today: "That any country could contemplate a warover weapons that have not been found would seem ludicrous if this scenario did not appear so close to happening.... Going to war opens the door to a lawless world - precisely the world that the U.N. and its Security Council were designed to exclude...."