[Peace-discuss] List of Cosponsoring Mayors for No Strike on Iran Resolution--Please add your Name!

[Robert Naiman]

If any of you happen to have links to folks in town whose
mayors might sign this, please pass this
along.

Note that Urbana Mayor Prussing is a
sponsor. -RN

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Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Subject: List of Cosponsoring Mayors for No Strike on Iran
Resolution--Please add your Name!

Please see Resolution opposing Military Strike on Iran and List of 19
Cosponsoring Mayors Below. Please add your name to the list of Mayors
supporting this initiative! We hope to bring supporting Mayors to DC
in Sept to publicize this, educate media, public and Congress. You DO
NOT Need to be attending the US Conference of Mayors meeting in Miami
in order to sign on to this!

Dear Fellow Mayors,

As a member of the International Affairs Committee of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors, I am introducing the attached resolution
concerning Iran at the upcoming annual meeting in Miami on June 20-24
and invite you to be a cosponsor. The resolution aims at avoiding
another devastating war and calls for the use of diplomacy and for
Congressional authorization before any use of force.

In these times when the Iraq war has sapped so many of our financial
resources and cost the lives of our brave soldiers, I hope you will
join me in voicing the determination of mayors across this country to
stop a war with Iran before it begins.

To cosponsor the resolution, please contact my assistant, Joe Reinart,
at JReinert at ci.Burlington.vt.us or (802) 865-7275.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,
Mayor Bob Kiss
Burlington, Vermont

Resolution Submitted By:

The Honorable Bob Kiss
Mayor of Burlington, VT

The Honorable William D. Euille
Mayor of Alexandria, VA

The Honorable R.T. Rybak
Mayor of Minneapolis, MN

The Honorable Joy Cooper
Mayor of Hallandale Beach, FL

The Honorable Marty Blum
Mayor of Santa Barbara, CA

The Honorable Dan Coody
Mayor of Fayetteville, AK

The Honorable Kevin Foy
Mayor of Chapel Hill, NC

The Honorable Gayle McLaughlin
Mayor of Richmond, CA

The Honorable Kitty Piercy
Mayor of Eugene, OR

The Honorable Elaine Walker
Mayor of Bowling Green, KY

The Honorable Jeff Prang
Mayor of West Hollywood, CA

The Honorable Rhine McLin
Mayor of Dayton, OH

The Honorable Jennifer Hosterman
Mayor of Pleasanton, CA

The Honorable Laurel Lunt Prussing
Mayor of Urbana, IL

The Honorable Anthony B Santos
Mayor of San Leandro, CA

The Honorable J. Christian Bollwage
Mayor of Elizabeth, NJ

The Honorable Scott J. Brook
Mayor Coral Springs, FL

The Honorable Bruce R. Williams

Submitted to the U.S. Conference of Mayors by the Honorable Mayor Bob
Kiss of Burlington, VT for consideration at the Miami Meeting on June
20-24, 2008

A RESOLUTION OPPOSING MILITARY INTERVENTION IN IRAN

WHEREAS, the WHEREAS: The President and members of his administration
have alleged that Iran poses an imminent threat to the United States,
U.S. troops in the Middle East and U.S. allies, and

WHEREAS, these allegations are similar to the lead-up to the Iraq War
and U.S. occupation, with  the selective use of information and
unsubstantiated accusations about Iran's nuclear program and its
supply of weapons to Iraqi forces as centerpieces of a case to the
American people for aggression against Iran, and

WHEREAS, Iran has not threatened to attack the United States, and no
compelling evidence has been presented to document that Iran poses a
real and imminent threat to the security and safety of the United
States that would justify an unprovoked unilateral pre-emptive
military attack; and

WHEREAS, we support the people of Iran who are struggling for freedom
and democracy, and nothing herein should be misconstrued as support
for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but it should be
understood that a unilateral, pre-emptive U.S. military attack on Iran
could well prove counterproductive to the cause of promoting freedom
and democracy there; and

WHEREAS, a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), representing the
consensus view all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, concluded that Iran
froze its nuclear weapons program in 2003, and an earlier NIE
concluded that Iran's involvement in Iraq "is not likely to be a major
driver of violence" there, and

WHEREAS, an attack on Iran is likely to cause untold thousands of
American and Iranian casualties, lead to major economic dislocations,
and threaten even greater destabilization in the Middle East, and

WHEREAS, a pre-emptive U.S. military attack on Iran would violate
international law and our commitments under the U.N. Charter and
further isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world; and

WHEREAS, an attack on Iran is likely to inflame hatred for the U.S. in
the Middle East and elsewhere, inspire terrorism, and lessen the
security of Americans, and

WHEREAS, the Iraq war and occupation has already cost the lives of
over 4,000 American soldiers, the maiming and wounding of over 38,000
American soldiers, the death and maiming of over one million Iraqi
civilians, and

WHEREAS, the Iraq War and occupation has cost U.S. taxpayers more than
$500 billion, depriving our cities of much-need funds for services and
infrastructure, and

WHEREAS, except at our peril, we cannot ignore the history of U.S.
government mis-information used to inspire U.S. aggression in Vietnam
and again in Iraq, as embodied in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and
more recently in the what we know now as false claims of weapons of
mass destruction, and

WHEREAS, any conflict with Iran is likely to incur far greater costs
and divert more precious national resources away from critical human
needs, now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, that the U.S. Conference of Mayors hereby urges the
Bush Administration to pursue diplomatic engagement with Iran on
nuclear issues and ending the violence in Iraq, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the U.S. Conference of Mayors urges
Congress to prohibit the use of funds to carry out any military action
against Iran without explicit Congressional authorization, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that suitable copies of the resolution be
forwarded to President George W. Bush and all members of Congress.