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Do
you worry about how much and how often your country goes to war?
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Do
you, your family or any member have money problems because of your
country's warmaking?
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Does
your country tell lies to cover up the horrors
of war and the reasons for going to war?
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Do
you feel that if your country cared about you as a citizen it would stop
sending your children to war for corporate profit and greed?
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Does
your country create a perpetual enemy of one kind
or another?
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Do
your
country’s war making policies frequently get you upset?
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Does
your country's war making make meal-time an unpleasant experience?
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Does
your country's warmaking compel you to threaten others such as, “If you don’t support the war, then get out
of the country" or "Love it or leave it?".
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Does
your country encourage you to secretly spy on those who don’t support war?
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Do
you fear the country will go to
war against you if you do not support your country's war?
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Have
you been hurt or embarrassed by your country’s war making behavior?
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Has
your country spoiled holidays and gatherings because of its war making?
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Has
your country created the fear that your children
may be drafted and sent to yet another war?
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Does
your country encourage you to find new enemies in other countries and
encourage you to accept going to war with them?
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Does
your country ask you to willingly and without question offer up your children to the commander-in-chief
for making perpetual war?
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Does
your country's warmaking compel you to refuse social invitations out of fear of meeting people who
may not agree?
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Does
your country consider you a failure because you cannot or do not
participate in warmaking?
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Does
your country project that if it stopped making war your reasons for
supporting it would disappear?
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Does
your country's warmaking encourage you to hurt anyone while showing support for
making war?
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Does
your country's warmaking have you feeling angry, confused or depressed most of the time?
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Does
your country foster a patriotism that everyone should always support
any war it makes?
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We
admit we are powerless over war -- that our lives and well-being have
become unmanageable by the resource-sucking war machine..
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We
now come to believe that there is no power greater than ourselves that
can restore sanity to the warmakers.
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We
make a decision to turn our commitment and our actions over to the
elimination of war as national foreign policy and as a means of conflict
resolution.
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We
make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and why we
are so attached to the excitement of war.
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We
admit to humanity and to each other the exact nature of warmaking.
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We
are entirely ready to remove all these defects of human character in
us.
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We
humbly ask the victims of our war making to forgive our shortcomings.
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We
make a list of all persons our warring has harmed, and become willing
to make amends to them all.
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We
urge our country to make direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
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We
continue to take personal inventory of our warmaking tendencies and
when we are so inclined to promptly admit it.
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We
seek to enhance peace through personal contact with humanity seeking
the knowledge and personal empowerment needed in creating a more
peaceful world.
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Having
had a consciousness awakening as a result of these steps, we try to
carry this message to warmakers and to practice these principles in
all our domestic and international affairs.