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We are writing to urge you to join and support the tens of thousands of people who are holding an Emergency March on the White House Saturday, March 15 and conducting solidarity Stop the War actions all around the world. On March 15, workers in
Bush and Blair have announced a March 17 deadline for war and demanded the international community's ratification. They are paving the path to war by racing to convince the world that war is inevitable and that they answer to no one except George W. Bush and his warmongering associates. They want to demoralize and immobilize the opposition at the most critical moment.
But the warmakers can still be stopped, and they know it. If it hadn't been for the worldwide uprising against the war the carnage would have started months ago. We can and must intensify the mobilization for March 15.
While there are multiple plans for activities in the event of war or after war has begun, all people of conscience recognize that there are no planned actions more important than those called to prevent a war before it starts, and for people in the United States at this time that is particularly true. We must do everything in our power now to prevent the government of the
The Economic and Social Consequences of this Planned Oil War -- Who Wins, Who Loses? The very day that Bush and Blair set a March 17 deadline for war, the Labor Department issued its surprise report that more than 300,000 people were put out of work just in the last month as corporations slashed jobs. The Jobs Report was expected to show an increase of 20,000 jobs. The Pentagon's military campaign of "Shock and Awe" may help kill tens of thousands of Iraqis in the next weeks but it won't help even one of these laid-off workers get their jobs back. But Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Powell's real constituents are not unemployed workers but the oil, banking, and military corporations who stand to profit handsomely from gaining control over Iraq's vast oil reserves (the second largest in the world). While the danger of war and world instability sends unemployment and gas prices sky high, not all are suffering.
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The plan for the Emergency Convergence on the White House is to gather at
Contact information for BUSES, VANS AND CAR CARAVANS traveling to DC -- and an easy-to-use form to sign up to list the transportation options from your city -- is available at http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m15/m15transp.html .
A FLYER for the March 15 Emergency National Convergence on the White House is available at VoteNoWar.org. You can easily download a PDF of the national flyer for the Washington DC demonstration, as well as a version for those in New York City planning to travel to DC. Flyers for West Coast events in Los Angeles and San Francisco are available, as well.
If you cannot download and print the flyers, you can pick up stacks at A.N.S.W.E.R. offices around the country, or you can call 202-544-3389 and request a packet of flyers.
For logistical information -- such as a map of the rally area, directions, public transportation in DC, disability access, housing and more -- go to http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m15/logistics.html .
- The underlying premise of the White House propaganda for months can be summed up into one single message: This war will happen because no one can stop us. Bush and company know that they don't have the truth on their side, nor the law, nor world public opinion, nor the governments of the world, nor the UN.
Confronted with the revelation of their own lies and concealment, Bush and Blair are rushing to begin the slaughter lest the growing global antiwar opposition overwhelm their plans. One day after his national television "war speech," the U.N. weapons inspectors and others exposed Bush's pretext for war as a lie in their March 7 report. According to the U.N. weapons inspectors, the
Their strategy is based on the myth of invincible military superiority: a supremacy in arms and equipment that can always crush those that it targets and always succeed in intimidating and bullying those who attempt political opposition. It is this same arrogance of power that dragged the country into twelve years of war in Vietnam killing more than a million Vietnamese and 58,000 GI's before the madness was brought to an end. It seems that the only lesson taken by the Bush Administration from the Vietnam War is that the administration should launch massive and obliterating destruction and killing with the belief that this will eliminate protracted battle for the
The Bush Administration's Justifications for War: Frauds and Forgeries
*UN Chief Nuclear Inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei's March 7 report to the UN exposed as a fraud the main
to import aluminum tubes for use in centrifuge enrichment" of uranium into weapons-grade material. Powell was briefed on the falseness of the aluminum tube claim prior to his testimony before the U.N. on the subject last month, and made misrepresentations to the Security Council with this knowledge. ElBaradei also revealed that the documents cited by
*To the dismay of the Bush administration, Hans Blix reported that
weapons inspections in 1991 with the promise that economic sanctions would be lifted when it was confirmed that it was "disarmed" of non-conventional weapons. Thus
"There are lots of business opportunities embedded in this war. It represents the larger oil and energy issues at stake," the Chronicle quotes Michael Renner of WorldWatch Institute. "Regime change in
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