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This article appeared in the June 2, 2003 edition of The Nation.

May 14, 2003

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LEGITIMATE? I THINK NOT

The Bronx, NY

The good old Nation has done it again. A terrific front cover by Art Spiegelman on the May 5 issue. But three pages later ("Tomorrow in Baghdad") we are told that "the only claim of legitimacy the Administration can make for the war it misled America into is that it was a humanitarian war to liberate an oppressed people." Whence the legitimacy?

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About Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen is executive vice president of Communications Workers of America (CWA) and UNI Telecom World president. more...

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Steve Early is a labor journalist and lawyer based in Boston. more...
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