Question: How would you be
personally affected if the United States went to war with Iraq?
“My heart goes out to the people of Iraq. They’ve already received a tremendous amount of pain and suffering at the hands of our government, and I think it will be a shame to see even more. At times like this, I think of myself as less of an American and more of a member of the human race, and to see other members of the human race hurt bothers me a lot.”
— Caton Volk, 22,
filmmaker, South Loop
“I’m totally against war. My friend, she’s in the National Guard, she doesn’t have any choice but to go. She only joined the National Guard because of school and stuff.”
— Karen Mella, 19,
student, International Academy of Design
“I think I’ll be affected by it because I think they’ll get a lot of youths involved in the war, physically, to go over there and fight. But I don’t think we have a real say so in it, we just have to do it. Personally, I wouldn’t want to do it but I’d do it because it’s the American way.”
— Joseph Bartlett, 19,
student, Malcolm X College
