War on Iraq - don't let your mind become occupied territory

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World Leaders

# World Leaders alarmed as US turns sights on Syria, comments from Britain, Spain, France, Turkey... and Syria

# Megawati Sukarnoputri , Indonesian President, denounces the 'law of the jungle' as practiced by US forces in Iraq

# Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian President

# World leaders condemn Iraq war, comments from leaders in Canada, Finland, China, Russia, France and Germany.

# Jacques Chirac, French President (earlier remarks from Chirac are here)

Mikhail Gorbachev, and other Nobel Prize winners

Jimmy Carter, former US President and Nobel Peace prize winner

Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa

Jiang Zemin, President of China

Chancellor Schröder of Germany

Politicians

# Clare Short, BBC interview with UK Secretary for International Development, following her resignation over plans for reconstruction of Iraq

# George McGovern, war hero, Congressman and presidential candidate, writes about George Bush and God.

# Robin Cook, former Foreign Secretary for UK (also read Cook's resignation speech here)

# Foreign Ministers around the world reject U.S appeal to shut Iraq embassies

# Ralph Nader, US Green Party Presidential Candidate

# Robert Byrd, US Senator, "today I weep for my country", speech from Senate floor, March 19th 2003 (more from Byrd is here)

# Australian Senate condemns war

Warren Christopher, former US Secretary of State

Bob Brown and 33 other Australian Senators, who declared no-confidence in Prime Minister John Howard

Brent Scowcroft, former US National Security Adviser

Gary Hart, ex US Senator

Jim McDermott, US Congressman

Charles Kennedy, leader of British Liberal Democratic Party

Clare Short, UK Secretary for International Development

Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London

Academics

# Sam Hamod, professor, author, and adviser to State Department, writes about the Killings in Al Fallujah

# John Tirman, Program Director of The Social Science Research Council, writes What Lurks in the Ruins?

# Noam Chomsky, MIT professor and political commentator (earlier articles from Chomsky are here and here)

George Monbiot, professor, activist and prize-winning writer

Joshua Meyrowitz, professor and media analyst

Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

Edward Said, Columbia Uni professor and historian of the Arab world (more here)

Religious Leaders

# Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the Catholic Church in England

# Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 'acknowledging despair'

US Religious Leaders: an open letter to George Bush (pdf file)

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

and 100 US Jewish leadersr

Pope John Paul II

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of South Africa

Jesse Jackson, US civil rights leader (more comment here)

Military

# Veteran CIA Officers send a memo to President Bush re the intelligence failures that led to the war

# Barry McCaffery, retired US General

James Webb, Wesley Clark, Anthony Zinni, David Hackworth, all former US military leaders

Norman Schwarzkopf, Gulf War General

Ray McGovern, former US Army intelligence officer.

Daniel Smith, Westpoint graduate and Vietnam veteran

Vietnam Veterans Against The War

Specialists on Iraq

# Salam Pax - Iraq Diaries, reports and photos from the famous 'Baghdad Blogger'

# Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector, writes Missing Arms Cast Doubt on War (pre-war analysis by Ritter is here)

# Amir al-Saadi, surrendered Iraqi General, says there are no Weapons of Mass Destruction

# Hans Blix, War Planned Long Ago (earlier comments by Blix are here)

# Voices on Iraq, 30 interviews with Iraqi exiles, academics and activist

Dennis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq

Hans Von Sponeck, former UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq

Richard Butler, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq

Edward Peck, former US Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan's terrorism task force

Dr Haider Abas, spokesman for Iraqi opposition party

Sean Boyne and Ibrahim al-Marashi, researchers quoted in British dossier about Iraq

Writers and Actors

# Arundhati Roy, prize-winning author and activist, writes a powerful critique of US policy (earlier articles by Roy are here and here)

# Arianna Huffington, columnist and author writes Why the Anti-War Movement was Right

# Margaret Atwood, Canadian author writes A letter to America

# Michael Moore, documentary maker, speech made at Oscar ceremony

# Kidman, Moore and Brody at the 'peace' Oscars

# Michael Moore and Julianne Moore, Hollywood stars on eve of Oscars

Martin Sheen, Samuel L Jackson, Kim Basinger, Helen Hunt and many other Hollywood stars

Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein, Bruce Cockburn, David Suzuki, and 120 other prominent Canadians

Philip Pullman, Nina Bawden, Michael Rosen, Jeremy Strong, Jean Ure, Morris Gleitzman, and hundreds of other children's authors and illustrators

Martin Sheen, US Actor. Watch his TV ads at the 'Win Without War' website

Ursula LeGuin, Michael Moorcock and other SF authors

100 Poets against the war, download the complete anthology

Harold Pinter, British playwright

John le Carré, British author

Martin Scorsese, US film director

Robert Redford, US director and actor

Sean Penn, US actor

George Clooney, US actor

Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Ken Loach, Roger Lloyd Pack and 100 and other British musicians and actors

Anti-war songs can be downloaded here

Journalists

# Peter Preston, Guardian UK, writes The world won't forgive or forget

# John Pilger, prize-winning British reporter, writes Crimes against Humanity (more from Pilger here and here)

# Robert Fisk, journalist and expert on the Middle East, writes that Something is Going Terribly Wrong (also here Baghdad: The Day After)

# Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive writes And Now the Occupation (earlier article by Rothschild is here)

# Mick Hume, Editor of Spiked, writes Hollow Victory in the War that never was

# Brendan O'Neill, Deputy Editor of Spiked, writes The Sorry State of Iraq

# Jay Bookman, Deputy Editor of the Atlanta Journal writes The President's Real Goal in Iraq

# Killing of journalists provokes outcry, US forces kill western and Arab journalists

# John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor "This is just a scene from hell", after US fighter drops bombs on Kurdish convoy

# International Federation of Journalists condemns military control of media

# Peter Arnett, Pulitzer prize-winner, writes "This war is not working"

# Uri Avnery, Israeli writer: "I am ashamed to be a journalist".

# Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy

# Magda Bandera, Spanish writer and journalist talks about the protests in her home country

# Tariq Ali, journalist, author, film-maker and activist

Maggie O'Kane, European Journalist of the Year, 2002

William Blum, author of Rogue State - A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, award-winning British writer on race issues

Jack Beatty, Senior Editor of Atlantic Monthly

Phil Donahue, Ben Franklin, Studs Terkel, Nina Utne, Barbara Koeppel and other leading journalists

Others

# Barcelona soccer players, the 'peace team'

Jane Fonda, William Styron, Oliver Stone, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Rev Al Sharpton, and 55,000 others who have signed the NION Statement of Conscience

George Soros, investor and philanthropist

John Brady Kiesling, US diplomat who recently resigned.

Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General

Charlotte Aldebron, activist (age 12)

Peter Weiss and more than 300 international lawyers and doctors

Jesse Jackson, Charles Kennedy, Bianca Jagger and other speakers at the London rally

Uri Avery, leader of the Gush Shalom peace movement in Israel

Families members of 11 September victims

Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's

Lord Rogers and other architects against war

Latest update: 23 May 2003

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