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RELEASE Green Party: It's time for a new peace movement to
oppose endless war<br style="">
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Green Party of the United States
is calling for a new antiwar movement in response to the
renewal of U.S. military involvement in Iraq.<br style="">
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Greens said that dropping bombs in Iraq and Syria is
unlikely to bring peace and stability to the region. The
open-ended campaign includes more than a thousand U.S.
troops on the ground in Iraq.<br style="">
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NAME: "ISIS learned from al-Qaeda that the U.S. can be
manipulated into going to war and inflicting death and
mayhem on civilians. They witnessed how easily major U.S.
media can be seduced into beating drums for more military
action. The confusion over who the U.S.'s allies are, with
attacks on the same militias in Iraq that President Obama
recently wanted to arm in Syria against President Assad,
has rendered foreign policy incoherent. The U.S. even
aided and trained ISIS rebels in Syria. The U.S. bombing
campaign is likely to function as a recruiting tool for
violent religious movements like ISIS that are targeting
northern Iraqi Yazidis and other helpless civilian
populations."<br style="">
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NAME: "It's time to speak out against perpetual war. The
Obama Administration's recent actions in Iraq, as well as
airstrikes and drone warfare in Libya, Pakistan, and other
nations tell us that endless war is now a bipartisan
policy. We're raising a younger generation of Americans
who have never known peace. Unfortunately, most of the
antiwar movement of the last decade disbanded after Barack
Obama's inauguration, under the delusion that they had
helped elect an antiwar president. The demand for peace
should have become even louder in 2009. Meanwhile, the
Green Party has maintained its opposition to U.S. military
aggression around the world and remains the nation's peace
party."<br style="">
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NAME: "It's not possible to meet the country's human needs
or solve the climate crisis while engaged in perpetual
war. Wars require huge budgets and reallocation of
resources. The winners in endless war are weapons
manufacturers and dealers, crony military contractors like
Halliburton, and a rapidly expanding homeland-security
industry that's chiseling away our rights and freedoms.
The Green Party calls for deep cuts to military funding
and reinvestment in social programs and the fight against
climate change."<br style="">
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NAME: "When the Bush-Cheney Administration ordered the
invasion of Iraq in March 2003 based on propaganda and
cooked intelligence, the result was hundreds of thousands
of dead Iraqi civilians, destroyed infrastructure, over
4,000 dead U.S. troops and thousands more suffering from
physical and psychological injuries. Another effect was
that the war opened Iraq's borders to al-Qaeda and, more
recently, ISIS militias. Recent war history shows that
such groups are seldom defeated by military incursions,
that they often thrive in the chaos of war. It's all too
likely that current U.S. actions are setting the stage for
the next phase in the endless conflict that President Bush
unleashed eleven years ago."</big></big></big><br style="">
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