Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Statesmen Speak: A War Both Unnecessary and Vain -- The (Bogus) Case Against Saddam -- Postscript. The "Oppression of the Shiites" -- Postscript. The Adverse Consequences Economic Sanctions Had on the Enjoyment of Human Rights in Iraq -- Postscript. The Real "Oil-for-Food" Scandal -- I. Cool War -- II. Sanctions, Just-War Doctrine, and the "Fearful Spectacle of the Civilian Dead" -- III. A Weapon of Mass Distraction -- Whose War? -- Conservative and Anti-War: Patriotism, Prudence, and the Moral Law -- Refuge of Scoundrels: Patriotism, True and False, in the Iraq War Controversy -- On Morals, Motives, and Men -- Legal Nonsense -- Riding the Red Horse: War and the Prospects of Success -- A Mirage Too Far -- The Failure of War -- A Conservative War? -- The Venerable Tradition: Putting the Breaks on Aggression and Securing Justice for Iraq -- Might Is Not Right: Why "Preventive War" Is Immoral -- I. Self-Defense -- II. "Pre-Emptive Strike" -- III. "Preventive War" -- IV. Closing Reflection -- Epistemic Inadequacy, Catholic Just-War Criteria, and the War in Iraq -- A Review of the Literature: Exposing the Fallacies in Defense of the Invasion of Iraq -- Iraq: Sovereignty and Conscience -- Judgment and Inspiration: The Church Still Speaks with Authority -- To Whom Should We Go? Legitimate Authority and Just Wars -- A Moment of Moral Crisis -- Postscript. The Bishop Explains -- Postscript. A Canonist Comments -- Peace Is Still Possible: The Unity of the Church in the Face of the Iraq War -- A Higher Law: Conscience, Morality, and the Transcendent Vision -- Decadent, Belligerent, and Incorrigible -- Setting Just Limits to New Methods of Warfare -- The Morality of Weapons Systems -- Christian Killers? -- Is Conscientious Objection a Moral Option? -- The Sounds of Conscience.

Section V Appendix: A Tribunal -- Speaking With Authority: the True Just-war Doctrine as a Light for Our Time -- Appendix I. Just-War Doctrine: The Metaphysical and Moral Problem -- A. The Necessity of War -- B. Just and Unjust War -- Appendix II. Modern War Is to Be Absolutely Forbidden -- Appendix III. A Study of the Development of Church -- Index -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Further Resources.

Refuting the myth that America's socially conservative thinkers, journalists, and commentators tend to support the war in Iraq, this text incorporates the opinions of some of the leading figures in America's conservative movement on why the decision to go to war and the continuing occupation of Iraq was and is the wrong course of action. Twenty-five articles by influential thinkers such as former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, syndicated columnists Sam Francis, Joseph Sobran, Eric Margolis, and Charley Reese, leading economist Jude Wanniski, social critics Tom Fleming and Paul Gottfried, and religious figures Bishop John Michael Botean and the late Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani make the case against the Iraqi conflict using conservative arguments on geopolitics, Christian morality, and common sense. Four detailed appendices on the war teachings of the Roman Catholic Church are also provided.

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