WAKE UP AMERICA!
DON’T SUPPORT THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ!
* Would an attack on Iraq not just confirm the Arab world's worst suspicions about the United States? And isn't this what bin Laden wanted?
* How can our declared goal of bringing democracy to Iraq be believable when we prop up dictators throughout the Middle East and support military tyrants like Musharaf in Pakistan, who overthrew a democratically elected president?
* Is it not also true that we are willing to bomb Iraq now because we know it cannot retaliate -- which just confirms that there is no real threat?
- Three out of thirty-five points that Texas Republican Representative Ron Paul read to the House of Representatives on 9-11-02.
( For full document go to http://tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6404 )
PUT AN END TO US/UN SANCTIONS ON IRAQ AND THE UPCOMING WAR :
1.5 million people in Iraq, over half of them children under five, have died as a direct result of the sanctions. One-third of children are severely malnourished. Eight years of sanctions have denied an entire generation books and even pencils, and have caused them physical and mental damage that, even if they survive, they will never completely overcome.
For the Iraqi people, the Gulf War is still not over. Since August 1990, Iraq has been under U.S.-led UN economic sanctions. These sanctions prevent Iraq from selling oil and freeze Iraq's foreign assets, the result of which is the inability to purchase the food and medicines that the people desperately need. The UN's own agencies (UNICEF, FAO, WFP, WHO), academic institutions (such as Harvard and the University of Massachusetts), and grassroots organizations including the International Action Center have sent teams of people to independently investigate the humanitarian situation in Iraq. Medical professionals, professors, students, religious leaders, political and social activists, and many others have traveled to Iraq to witness the suffering of the Iraqi people and to bring a message back to the U.S. that the mainstream press will never tell you: THE SANCTIONS MUST END NOW!
-International Action Center Founded Ramsey Clark Former U.S. Attorney General
THE REAL REASONS FOR U.S. WAR MOVES
The politicians’ and bosses’ lust for profits and power corresponds with the deepest demands of the capitalist system they serve. The world economy is sliding further into crisis. Profits are falling. Even the mighty U.S. economy is beginning to sink. By invading Iraq, the U.S. not only hopes to profit from directly exploiting Iraq’’s oilfields. It also aims to assert its power over an increasingly unstable world.
- League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) Statement, September 23, 2002
RECOMMENDED WEB SITES:
* http://www.iacenter.org/ (International Action Center)
* http://www.indymedia.org (Independent MediaCenter)
* http://www.refuseandresist.org (Refuse and Resist)
* http://www.fair.org/ (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
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(Edited by andresG at 10:42 pm on Sep. 26, 2002)
