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SATURDAY, APRIL 12:
NATIONAL MARCH on WASHINGTON

STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ!
Gather at 12 noon
March on the White House

On Saturday, April 12, join the tens of thousands of 
people of conscience who will surround the White House.  The whole world is watching to see if the people of the 
United States can intensify the power of the anti-war 
movement at the moment that the Bush Administration is  intending to slaughter tens of thousands of Iraqi people 
and occupy their country. We urge every anti-war organizer  and concerned person to bring your friends, neighbors and  family members to this all-important mobilization on April  12.

The world is in a state of Shock and Revulsion as the 
murderous Bush Administration follows through on its 
promise to "Shock and Awe" the Iraqi people by dropping  thousands of bombs and missiles on their capital, a city 
that is home to 4.5 million human beings. Baghdad has been  bombed relentlessly, terrorizing the occupants of that 
city and of the entire country. U.S. "precision" bombs 
have slammed into poor residential neighborhoods in 
Baghdad and a busy shopping street. U.S. and British 
troops are leaving a "trail of death" in their wake as 
they invade and bomb Iraq and reporters describe charred  corpses littering the roads to Baghdad as well as in its 
streets. U.S. and British forces have laid siege to Basra,  bombing and destroying the electrical supply to the main  water plant and blocking the Iraqi food distribution 
system into Basra. The people of Basra are now starving  and without water; various U.N. agencies state that Basra  is in humanitarian crises and on the verge of a major 
cholera outbreak and massive child mortality. This crisis  is caused by the U.S. attack coupled with the effect of 12  years of U.S.-led U.N. economic sanctions. The United 
States government is telling the people of Basra that they  may only have food and water if they rise up against the  Iraqi government and accept the U.S. occupation.

The Iraqi people and the U.S. GIs who have been killed and  wounded and are suffering are the casualties of George W.  Bush's unprovoked war of aggression. We extend our 
heartfelt sympathies to the families of all those who have  been killed and wounded as a consequence of this illegal 
imperialist war.

This horrific unprovoked attack on Iraq must be understood  as one of the extreme terrorist acts of modern times. 
Cruise missiles launched from submarines and aircraft 
hundreds of miles away and 2,000 lb. bombs dropped from  30,000 ft. up are the latest example of the Bush 
administration's criminal resort to limitless violence and 
terrorism in order to achieve its objectives of conquest  and occupation. The hypocrisy of the war against Iraq is  extreme: the most powerful military in the world waging  first strike war with the most advanced weapons against an  impoverished country on the pretext that it someday may  possess such weapons.

The world has entered a new phase. The Bush Administration  is hell bent on world domination. The war on Iraq was 
meant to signal that the U.S. use of raw military power 
will be the means to create a new era of Empire. We 
understand that the war on Iraq is only one of the fronts  on which the United States government is determined to  build a world empire. The U.S. is also waging war in 
Colombia, training future death squads at the dreaded 
School of the Americas/WHISC, and waging economic war  through the IMF, World Bank, and free trade treaties such  as the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement.

To the shock of the warmakers, their plans have ignited a  world movement of opposition and solidarity. In addi