[Peace-discuss] [ufpj-activist] Green Party statement on Trump's missile strike in Syria

Sun Apr 9 12:45:42 UTC 2017

Pathetic denial of Syrian agency, i.e. not a word of support for the masses
organizing and fighting every day against Assad and Daesh.

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Green Party statement on Trump's missile strike in Syria
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> *[image: syria-sanctuary-not-missiles.jpg]*
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> *WASHINGTON, D.C.* -- The *Green Party of the United States* strongly
> condemned President Donald Trump's unilateral cruise missile strike on a
> Syrian government airfield and called for a halt to further overt and
> covert military action by the U.S.
>
> Greens called for an internationally cooperative and impartial
> investigation of the nerve gas attack in Idlib province that killed scores
> of civilians, which supposedly motivated Mr. Trump to order the strikes.
> The U.S. alleges that the President Bashar al-Assad government is
> responsible for the gas attack, a claim disputed by some journalists
> covering the war.
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>
> *Greens call for halt to U.S. attacks and ongoing overt and covert
> military intervention in Syria, which will inflict even more civilian
> casualties and escalate the war in Syria, urge an arms embargo on all sides
> and an open door for fleeing Syrian civilians*
>
> *An impartial probe of the Idlib gas attacks and emergency negotiations
> are necessary to stop further bloodshed, prevent expanded Cold War conflict*
>
> *Greens criticize war drumbeats from Democrats and U.S. media, call for a
> revived antiwar movement*
>
> *Green Party of the United States*
> http://www.gp.org
> @GreenPartyUS <https://www.twitter.com/GreenPartyUS>
>
> *For Immediate Release:*
> Saturday, April 8, 2017
>
> *Contact:*
> Scott McLarty, Media Director, 202-904-7614 <(202)%20904-7614>,
> scott at gp.org
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>
> Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other leaders have also called
> for an investigation. Green Party leaders noted that unilateral attacks on
> another sovereign country that poses no immediate threat to the U.S.
> violate international law and treaties to which the U.S. is signatory.
>
> The Green Party also calls for the U.S. to admit Syrian civilians,
> especially children, who are fleeing the war.
>
> Greens said that the strike ordered by President Trump threatens to expand
> the Syrian conflict into a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia in the
> context of a new Cold War between the two powers. The CIA and Saudi Arabia,
> a U.S. ally, have supplied funding and weapons to Syrian rebel groups that
> have strengthened ISIL and al-Qaeda, even while the U.S. continues to bomb
> the latters' strongholds in Iraq.
>
> Green Party leaders asserted that the investigation and emergency
> negotiations with Russia, Iran, and all others involved or with an interest
> in the Syrian war are necessary to stop further bloodshed and prevent a
> wider regional or global military confrontation.
>
> The Green Party supports an international arms embargo on all sides, which
> is only possible through multilateral negotiation. The party refutes
> bipartisan claims that military solutions can bring peace and stability.
>
> In calling for a halt to U.S. military action, the Green Party in no way
> defends either the Assad government or rebel forces, which are responsible
> for the slaughter, maiming, and displacement of hundreds of thousands of
> civilians. The party supports an international investigation into war
> crimes on all sides. Greens warned that U.S. military action will only lead
> to more mass civilian casualties, as shown by U.S. invasions and attacks in
> Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other Muslim countries since 2001.
>
> The Green Party sharply criticized major media and warhawk Democrats who
> are cheering the missile strikes. Mr. Trump's pre-attack friendly stance
> towards Russia -- opposed by Democrats enthusiastic for a new Cold War --
> offered a chance for cooperation between Washington and Moscow. The missile
> strikes are likely to have scuttled that chance.
>
> Greens said that Trump Administration's belligerence risks a new era of
> reckless warfare comparable to -- or worse than -- President George W.
> Bush's disastrous first term. Since his inauguration and despite his
> protestations of sympathy for civilians, including children, killed in the
> Idlib assault, Mr. Trump has ordered raids in Yemen and air assaults on
> Mosul and a mosque near Aleppo that have killed scores of civilians. These
> crimes are compounded by his administration's anti-Muslim immigration
> proposals and deportations, especially targeting Syrians fleeing their
> country's civil war.
>
> The Green Party calls for a revived mass antiwar movement that opposes
> military action that threatens the lives of civilians, that rejects wars
> for oil and other resources and for U.S. political and economic domination,
> and that recognizes a dangerous continuity in the Bush, Obama, and Trump
> administrations' war policies. These same policies have ignited rage
> against the U.S. and may lead to new retaliatory violence against Americans.
>
> The party also urges deep cuts in defense spending (except for veterans'
> services) and dismantling of the military-industrial complex, noting that
> the U.S. military budget is ten times greater than Russia's and that the
> U.S. faces no threat from other countries.
>
>
> *MORE INFORMATION*
>
> Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
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> @GreenPartyUS <https://www.twitter.com/GreenPartyUS>
>
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>
>
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