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[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

GP RELEASE Green Party: It's time for a new peace movement to oppose 
endless war


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Green Party of the United States is calling for 
a new antiwar movement in response to the renewal of U.S. military 
involvement in Iraq.

Greens said that dropping bombs in Iraq and Syria is unlikely to bring 
peace and stability to the region. The open-ended campaign includes more 
than a thousand U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq.

NAME: "ISIS learned from al-Qaeda that the U.S. can be manipulated into 
going to war and inflicting death and mayhem on civilians. They 
witnessed how easily major U.S. media can be seduced into beating drums 
for more military action. The confusion over who the U.S.'s allies are, 
with attacks on the same militias in Iraq that President Obama recently 
wanted to arm in Syria against President Assad, has rendered foreign 
policy incoherent. The U.S. even aided and trained ISIS rebels in Syria. 
The U.S. bombing campaign is likely to function as a recruiting tool for 
violent religious movements like ISIS that are targeting northern Iraqi 
Yazidis and other helpless civilian populations."

NAME: "It's time to speak out against perpetual war. The Obama 
Administration's recent actions in Iraq, as well as airstrikes and drone 
warfare in Libya, Pakistan, and other nations tell us that endless war 
is now a bipartisan policy. We're raising a younger generation of 
Americans who have never known peace. Unfortunately, most of the antiwar 
movement of the last decade disbanded after Barack Obama's inauguration, 
under the delusion that they had helped elect an antiwar president. The 
demand for peace should have become even louder in 2009. Meanwhile, the 
Green Party has maintained its opposition to U.S. military aggression 
around the world and remains the nation's peace party."

NAME: "It's not possible to meet the country's human needs or solve the 
climate crisis while engaged in perpetual war. Wars require huge budgets 
and reallocation of resources. The winners in endless war are weapons 
manufacturers and dealers, crony military contractors like Halliburton, 
and a rapidly expanding homeland-security industry that's chiseling away 
our rights and freedoms. The Green Party calls for deep cuts to military 
funding and reinvestment in social programs and the fight against 
climate change."

NAME: "When the Bush-Cheney Administration ordered the invasion of Iraq 
in March 2003 based on propaganda and cooked intelligence, the result 
was hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians, destroyed 
infrastructure, over 4,000 dead U.S. troops and thousands more suffering 
from physical and psychological injuries. Another effect was that the 
war opened Iraq's borders to al-Qaeda and, more recently, ISIS militias. 
Recent war history shows that such groups are seldom defeated by 
military incursions, that they often thrive in the chaos of war. It's 
all too likely that current U.S. actions are setting the stage for the 
next phase in the endless conflict that President Bush unleashed eleven 
years ago."


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