This morning's discussion reminded me of interviews I recorded in the first year of the Iraq war. The 55-minute podcast includes three interviews: one with a religious pacifist, one with a just war proponent who thought the Iraq war was unjust, and a pastor who thought the war qualified as just. http://religionmatters.missouri.edu/mp3s/IraqWar04.mp3 Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Friesen Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies Dept. of Classics, 1 Univ. Sta. C3400 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 W: (512) 471-8629 F: (512) 471-4111 H: (512) 482-0822 https://webspace.utexas.edu/~sjf365/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 5, the past year, has been one of troop escalation, or the ³surge.² (Calling the policy a ³surge² rather than an ³escalation² is emblematic of the administration¹s propaganda.) The big lie is that Iraq is now calm, that the surge has worked, and that victory is within reach. -- Juan Cole http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/20/7791/ ------- Austin Mennonite Church, (512) 926-3121 www.mennochurch.org To unsubscribe: use subject "unsubscribe" sent to amc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx