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Article: Churches argue against war. (News).
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 9, 2002
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AS THE BUSH administration wrestled with Senate Democrats over presidential authority to wage a preemptive war against Iraq, mainline church figures lobbied Congress, contending that a first-strike, unilateral attack on that country would be immoral. The White House meanwhile rejected as unacceptable an agreement between UN officials and Iraq to allow
weapons inspections at all sites except Saddam Hussein's large presidential palaces.
And while Bush and Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to persuade France, Russia and China to back a stronger UN resolution, at world-level September gatherings of Anglicans in Hong Kong and Methodists in Oslo, Norway, ...