[Peace-discuss] Fwd:[ANSWER]: The Politics of Oil, Deceit, Diplomacy and War

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TENS OF THOUSANDS TO MARCH AGAINST THE WAR DEADLINE The Politics of Deceit, Diplomacy, Oil and War

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 Italy are 
staging an anti-war General Strike. In Spain, Greece, 
Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the UK, and in Los Angeles,  San Francisco and cities around the world people are 
coming together in Emergency Mass Action on March 15 to  stop the U.S./UK war against the people of Iraq.

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 U.S. from its planned 
killing in the Middle East. That is what makes the March 
15 Emergency Convergence so crucial.

THE WAR MAKERS FORGED DOCUMENTS

Confronted with the revelation of their own lies and 
concealment, Bush and Blair are rushing to begin the 
slaughter lest the growing global antiwar sentiment 
overwhelm their plans. One day after his national 
television "war speech," the UN 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 U.S. and the U.K. provided "faked evidence" to the 
U.N. to support the claim that Iraq was pursuing nuclear  weapons, a series of forged letters. ("Some Evidence on  Iraq Called Fake, U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Document on  Purchases Were Forged," Washington Post, March 8, 2003,  A1) As claims made by Bush and Powell are dismissed and  discredited day by day, they are desperate to have the 
headlines focus on the coming war rather than the 
crumbling façade that they have asserted justifies the 
war.

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. 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 
U.S. This is a dangerous fallacy. A war launched by the