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Chicago priest to GIs: 'Lay down your arms'
Fr. Robert Bossie of the Eighth Day Center for Justice
called on U.S. soldiers, "especially those of the Roman
Catholic faith," to "lay down your arms" and to refuse to
participate in an assault on Iraq. He was speaking at a March
18 news conference with other representatives of Chicago's
anti-war movement.
Bossie said, "When I served in the U.S. military,
maintaining and servicing nuclear weapons, no priest ever
counseled me about the morality of what I was doing," When
asked by a journalist if his opinion would change if Iraq used
chemical weapons against U.S. troops, he said it would not. "In
that case, Iraq would be using the weapons as a defense against
invasion."
Reprinted from the March 27, 2003, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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