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War Is Not the Answer sign held
high at a protest
FCNL first developed the "War Is Not the Answer" campaign following the U.S. military campaign developed as a response to the horrendous attacks on September 11, 2001. In the past six years, FCNL has distributed more than 400,000 yard and window signs, bumper stickers, and other materials to people around the country and around the world.
This simple statement, which has sparked so many debates and responses from around the world, is a first step toward the open and respectful dialogue that must occur- both internationally and within our own divided nation - if this country is ever to find it's way toward
healing and reconciliation.
Wide Visibility of the Campaign
 War Is Not the Answer sign in Antarctica "The kind of people who put bumper stickers on their cars that declare that ‘war is not the answer,' are they making a serious comment? What's the answer to Pearl Harbor? What's the answer to the Holocaust?"
~Douglas J. Feith, Pentagon under secretary of defense for policy. Feith is widely considered one of the key intellectual architects of the Iraq war. Quoted in "A Little Learning" article in The New Yorker, May 9, 2005 |
 War Is Not the Answer sign at a demonstration
in downtown Indianapolis, September 2005.
"We believe that if war is considered the answer, then the wrong question is being asked."
~James Lehman Jr., describing why he put up a War Is Not the Answer sign in his front yard. Quoted in Gazzette Weekly, April 6, 2005
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 FCNL's Field Program Secretary
Kathy Guthrie, and
Director for Leadership Tim Barner standing on the
Great Wall at Mutianyu, China.
“As a Vietnam Vet I know that war is not the answer. Especially an illegal and unjustified war.”
~Robert Vine, August 2005
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Benjamin (9), David (7) and Rachel (11).
Went door to door giving out signs in
Albuquerque, NM
"This isn't about being Republican or Democrat, it's about wanting peace in our world."
~Rachel, an 11 year-old from Albuquerque, to a skeptical neighbor.
"Talking out your problems"
~Benjamin (9) in response to the question, "If war is not the answer, what is?"
Read FCNL's response to the question,
"If war is not the answer, what is?"
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FCNL staff in front of the
FCNL Building, across from
the Senate, June 2007. (Photo: Rick Reinhard)
"I have this sign because I do not believe a costly and dangerous war, where U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians could be exposed to chemical and biological weapons, is the way to disarm a dictator. This sign is my display of support for finding peaceful ways to prevent deadly conflict and my way of letting people know they can find answers to their questions about U.S. policy toward Iraq on the FCNL web site."
~Anonymous quote from one person who used the sign.
FCNL staff in front of the
FCNL Building, across from
the Senate, June 2007. (Photo: Rick Reinhard)
"For example, someone who works in Washington, DC, but wants to live in a suburb can commute either from Maryland or northern Virginia. Both states have equally leafy streets and good schools. But Virginia has plenty of conservative neighbourhoods with megachurches and Bushites you've heard of living on your block. In the posh suburbs of Maryland, by contrast, Republicans are as rare as unkempt lawns and yard signs proclaim that war is not the answer but Barack Obama might be." (Emphasis Added)
From "The Big Sort" article on political self-segregation in The Economist, June 19, 2008 |
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Reviewed:
06/30/2008
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