[Peace-discuss] Call in Congress for end of war

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Rep. Dennis Kucinich made the following statement in the House yesterday.
<http://www.kucinich.us/>. --CGE]


"Stop the war now. As Baghdad will be encircled, this is the time to get
the UN back in to inspect Baghdad and the rest of Iraq for biological and
chemical weapons. Our troops should not have to be the ones who will find
out, in combat, whether Iraq has such weapons. Why put our troops at
greater risk? We could get the United Nations inspectors back in.

"Stop the war now. Before we send our troops into house-to-house combat in
Baghdad, a city of five million people. Before we ask our troops to take
up the burden of shooting innocent civilians in the fog of war.

"Stop the war now. This war has been advanced on lie upon lie. Iraq was
not responsible for 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for any role al-Qaeda
may have had in 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for the anthrax attacks on
this country. Iraq did not tried to acquire nuclear weapons technology
from Niger. This war is built on falsehood.

"Stop the war now. We are not defending America in Iraq. Iraq did not
attack this nation. Iraq has no ability to attack this nation. Each
innocent civilian casualty represents a threat to America for years to
come and will end up making our nation less safe. The seventy-five billion
dollar supplemental needs to be challenged because each dime we spend on
this war makes America less safe. Only international cooperation will help
us meet the challenge of terrorism. After 9/11 all Americans remember we
had the support and the sympathy of the world. Every nation was ready to
be of assistance to the United States in meeting the challenge of
terrorism. And yet, with this war, we have squandered the sympathy of the
world. We have brought upon this nation the anger of the world. We need
the cooperation of the world, to find the terrorists before they come to
our shores.

"Stop this war now. Seventy-five billion dollars more for war.
Three-quarters of a trillion dollars for tax cuts, but no money for
veterans ' benefits. Money for war. No money for health care in America,
but money for war. No money for social security, but money for war. We
have money to blow up bridges over the Tigris and the Euphrates, but no
money to build bridges in our own cities. We have money to ruin the health
of the Iraqi children, but no money to repair the health of our own
children and our educational programs.

"Stop this war now. It is wrong. It is illegal. It is unjust and it will
come to no good for this country.

"Stop this war now. Show our wisdom and our humanity, to be able to stop
it, to bring back the United Nations into the process. Rescue this moment.
Rescue this nation from a war that is wrong, that is unjust, that is
immoral.

"Stop this war now".

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  Carl Estabrook
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [MC-190]
  109 Observatory, 901 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana IL 61801 USA
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