Business leaders &
Republicans
Military commanders & foreign policy
analysts
- Gen. Wesley Clark, U.S.
Army (ret.), former NATO commander (WP, 1/31/03)
- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf,
U.S. Army (ret.), former commander of coalition forces in Gulf War 1990-1991
(WP, 1/28/03)
- Gen. Anthony Zinni, U.S.
Marine (ret.), U.S. special envoy to Middle East, former head of U.S. Central
Command (NPR, 8/23/02)
- Anthony Cordesman, Center
for Strategic and International Studies (Report 12/31/02)
- Morton Halperin, director
of Open Society Institute - D.C., senior fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations (Washington Diplomat, 1/15/03)
- John Mearsheimer,
distinguished service prof. of political science at the University of Chicago,
codirector of Program in International Security Policy (Foreign Policy, Jan./Feb. 2003)
- Stephen Walt, academic dean
and prof. of international affairs at Harvard�s John F. Kennedy School of
Government (Foreign Policy, Jan./Feb. 2003)
Former administration
officials
- President Jimmy Carter
(The Carter Center,
1/31/03; NYT, 3/9/03)
- Madeleine Albright,
Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 (Detroit Free Press,
10/24/02; Business Week,
12/23/02)
- John Brown, Foreign Service
officer from 1981 to 2003 (AFP, 3/11/03)
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- Warren Christopher,
Secretary of State from 1993 to 1997 (NYT, 12/31/02)
- J. Brady Kiesling, Foreign
Service officer at U.S. embassy in Greece under Pres. George W. Bush
(NYT, 2/27/03)
- Brent Scrowcroft, National
Security Advisor from 1989 to 1993 (WSJ, 8/15/02)
Intelligence analysts & weapons
inspectors
- Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity, CIA veterans (CommonDreams.org, 2/7/03)
- Richard Butler, former head
of U.N. weapons inspections, UNSCOM 1997-1999 (Reuters, 1/28/03)
- Rolf Ekeus, former head of
U.N. weapons inspections, UNSCOM 1991-1997
- Scott Ritter, former U.S.
Marine and U.N. weapons inspector, UNSCOM 1991-1998
World political leaders & the
international community
- France, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan,
Syria, Canada, China, India, Russia, and many other countries.
- The biggest supporter of war with
Iraq at the U.N. is Britain despite the fact that 90% of British citizens
oppose war with Iraq (poll taken 2/14/03). Tony Blair will soon be out of a
job.
- Nelson Mandela, former
president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Laureate (BBC, 9/11/02)
- Mahathir Mohamad, Prime
Minister of Malaysia (Reuters, 1/24/03)
- Returned Peace Corps
Volunteers. To date, over 1,800
RPCVs have signed on to ads that
will run in the New York Times opposing war with Iraq.
Congress & other elected
representatives
Nobel laureates
- 41 American Nobel laureates
in science and economics; including developers of the atom bomb and former
national security and Pentagon officials. For the full list, see
New York Times,
1/28/03.
Clergy
Veterans
Labor
Artists & writers
- Artists United to Win Without
War, including actors Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Carl
Reiner and others. For full list, click here.
(AP, 12/10/02)
- Musicians United to Win Without
War, including David Byrne, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews and others. For
full list, click here. (Billboard, 2/28/03)
- Poets Against the War. Sam
Hamill, a reclusive former Marine turned poet, turned up an invitation to the
White House to voice opposition to war with Iraq; and now over 10,000 poets
have joined his voice of dissent at Poets Against the War. (Seattle P-I,
2/18/03)
- Andy Rooney. Though put out
by France's opposition, even Andy Rooney has stated he opposes war with Iraq.
(60 Minutes,
2/16/03)
- Arundhati Roy,
distinguished writer (Guardian,
9/27/02)
9-11 Victims' Families
Others
- See our list of Non-Governmental
Organizations and civic groups working to prevent war with Iraq here.
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