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

[Lisa Chason]

this is a great statement -- except for the opening point that now 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.'
This should really ring a sympathetic note with the rest of the world.

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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] Call in Congress for end of war


> [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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