[Peace-discuss] "Because it's still not over" Peace Demonstration Thursday March 18, 2010 / 5pm

[Karen Medina]

Attached is the proposed flier for tomorrow's Main Event peace demonstration.
Comments welcome.

On the back, we can mention up-coming events (like the Palestine Panel
on Sunday).

-karen medina

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spring is in the air, but before you leave for Spring Break, ...
> Join us for "Because it's still not over" Peace Demonstration (the
> following is from the flier attached)
>
> Why: Seven year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq ...
> ...and it is still not over.
> What: Peace Demonstration and Rally
> When: 18 March 2010 (Thursday) 5pm
> Where:  The corner of Green and Wright Streets, Champaign-Urbana
>
> * 2003 March 20, the United States invaded Iraq.
>  2010 March: we still have 115,000 troops in Iraq.
> * Congress supported the invasion in 2002 knowing that it was illegal
> but feeling that it was justified. They now say they were misled: the
> Bush Administration made over 935 false statements about Iraq’s
> alleged threat to the United States in a 2-year period.
> * 1,366,350 Iraqis have died due to the U.S. invasion and occupation (2010).
>  4.2 million Iraqis have lost their homes and become refugees (June 2007).
> * The Bush Administration estimated the war would cost $50 billion.
>  The total financial costs of the war in Iraq is now more than $700
> billion (February 2010).
> * Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq : $390,000
> * 4,377 US soldiers killed (as of January 2010). 31,639 seriously wounded.
>  54% of US casualties were under 25 years old.
> * 30% of US troops develop serious mental health problems within 3 to
> 4 months of returning home .
> * In October 2007, Obama supported removing all combat troops within
> 16 months. “I will remove one or two brigades a month, and get all of
> our combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months. The only troops I will
> keep in Iraq will perform the limited missions of protecting our
> diplomats and carrying out targeted strikes on al Qaeda. And I will
> launch the diplomatic and humanitarian initiatives that are so badly
> needed. Let there be no doubt: I will end this war.”
> * September 2007:  “I believe that we should have all our troops out
> by 2013, but I don’t want to make promises, not knowing what the
> situation’s going to be three or four years out. “
> * Congress has the power to limit the deployment of troops and funding
> of the wars.
>  $80 billion was approved in June 2009, for the ongoing war efforts
> in Afghanistan and Iraq.
> * Troops still in Iraq - Total 115,000 U.S. troops as of November 30,
> 2009. All other nations have withdrawn their troops. Private
> contractors in Iraq are harder to count.
> Because it is still not over. Because it is not just Iraq.
>
> This Peace Demonstration is brought to you by the
> Campus Antiwar Network  (CAN)
> and other peace organizations
>
> Trivia questions: Which level of Dante’s Inferno is for the politicians?
> Which level is for those who did nothing, neither for good nor evil —
> those who take no side.
>

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