Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story All War Talk, All The Time America's Leaders Fail To Offer Public Alternatives To War Americans went to public places 12 months ago bearing their doubts and their questions. They gathered in town squares, in living rooms, they even called into talk radio. They wanted to grieve, to ask why the United States had been attacked, and to discuss the possible options for a response. And they came together to find each other because all there was on TV was horror and fright. A year after the 9/11 attacks, Americans are still besieged by news of -- as the logos put it a year ago -- ""America Under Attack."" As has happened every time the public has started to ask questions (about the state of the economy, or the level of corruption in the White House) the administration is full of new scares, this time of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Dick Cheney used his air time on NBC this Sunday to stir more fears: he asked if Saddam could have been responsible for last fall's anthrax attacks. Donald Rumsfeld, speaking on CBS, got into a conversation with Bob Schieffer about the possibility that ""mom and pop terrorists"" might be just waiting to buy weapons of mass destruction from Iraq. But as the Bush administration seeks approval to launch the second war in a year, the situation demands some serious consideration, not of America's vulnerability, but of her strength. Is America vulnerable? Sure, but it's also the richest, most powerful, and only superpower on the planet. And the United States is on the attack. As Congress met in New York on Sept. 6 in a special remembrance of the 9/11 dead, 100 U.S. and British aircraft took part in an attack on Iraq for which there was no international or domestic mandate. Ostensibly to police the ""no fly zones"" over northern and southern Iraq, last week's assault was the largest engagement in four years. As usual, Pentagon spokespeople told the wire services that their planes acted in self defense, but the Daily Telegraph, a conservative British newspaper, suggested that the intent was to destroy all Iraqi air defenses to allow for easier access for special forces to land in advance of an American-led war. So far not one U.S. journalist and not one member of Congress has even raised a question, for example, about self defense: One hundred planes against what? As Americans gather again this week, the media and the administration will remind us of our grief. But what's still beyond the media pale is talk of America's choices. Being terrified is only one of them. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp11.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-02-24