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To the Editor: 

This is the time to speak up for peace. As American citizens, we must decide: Do we want to be responsible for the deaths of our young people and for those of many more innocent Iraqis? Do we want to do this in spite of overwhelming evidence that Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction? Do we want to do this in spite of the fact that nearly every country on the planet opposes a U.S. strike against Iraq? It is time for Americans to think about what is motivating the handful of politicians in Washington D.C. who want war? Finally, it is time to dream about what might happen in our communities if all that money being designated for war could instead go to schools and healthcare? 

We can stop this war, if we all speak up for peace. 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe 

Berkeley