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# Give peace a chance
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/give-peace-a-chance-editor/
- Published: 2002-08-15T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:38:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Westwood, #archive-import

*By Andrew Kay Liberman Venice*

Why do the voices of war drown out those for peace today? If a Gulf of Tonkin incident is created or occurs by circumstance, which led to Lyndon Johnson's quagmire with the U.S. war on Vietnam, there will be no time for considering any options. Bush will act swiftly and attack with or without the required Congressional approval, as we are now accustomed to.

Two U.S. wars on Iraq — one by Bush senior and the other by Clinton have clearly led only to one thing: more war.

Robert E. Hunter of the Santa Monica-based Rand Corporation says of the apparently imminent U.S. war on Iraq, “... we must summon knowledge and assume due humility. We must finally start widespread, sustained, open, serious and uncensored debate on Iraq, free of cant and emotion on all sides; we must be willing to accept permanent commitment to responsibility in the region — and do all this before the attack to Baghdad.”

Give peace a chance. Every Friday afternoon the LA Coalition for World Peace has called for, at 5-7 p.m., Angelinos to assemble at the Westwood federal building in non-violent expression for peace, urging the U.S. to refrain from more war. Park and join the growing world opinion for peace after you drive by to honk your support.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 15, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081502.pdf?ref=smdp.com)