[Peace] Fwd: Draft Antiwar Resolution for Chicago City Council

[Alfred Kagan]

>FYI
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>
>From: Carl Davidson
>  Date: Tue Nov 26, 2002 5:19am
>  Subject: Text of Antiwar Resolution for Chicago City Council
>
>  Hi folks
>
>  I think this is a very good model....pass it on
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>  City of Chicago, Illinois
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>  Resolution No.____
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>  Introduced by:
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>  REQUESTING THE GOVERNING BODY TO PROTEST THE CONTEMPLATED WAR ON IRAQ
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>  WHEREAS, the citizens of the Chicago and their local
>  elected officials have the constitutional right to
>  petition the national government on this matter of
>  grave concern to our city, the nation, and the world
>  community, and
>
>  WHEREAS, the residents of the City of Chicago hold high
>  the sanctity of human life; and
>
>  WHEREAS, the residents of the City of Chicago believe
>  that a democratic nation should neither be an aggressor
>  nation nor pursue an unjust war; and
>
>  WHEREAS the people of the City of Chicago do not
>  believe it is the right of one nation to dictate the
>  choices of another nation, however heinous the leaders
>  it chooses; and
>
>  WHEREAS, former United Nations weapons inspectors,
>  other experts, and world leaders have testified that
>  Iraq - unlike North Korea, India, Pakistan, or Israel -
>  neither possesses nuclear weapons nor the capacity to
>  produce them, and does not pose an imminent threat to
>  the United States; and
>
>  WHEREAS, the actions of the Gulf War, the UN sanctions,
>  and continued bombing of regions of Iraq have already
>  resulted in the deaths of over 500,000 people,
>  predominantly Iraqi women, children, and the elderly,
>  yet have proven ineffective in accomplishing the
>  removal of Saddam Hussein; and
>
>  WHEREAS, a new attack on Iraq will cause tens or
>  hundreds of thousands more civilian casualties, as well
>  as military casualties on both sides of the conflict;
>  and
>
>  WHEREAS, The City of Chicago's 18-25 year old
>  population is likely to be a primary source of
>  conscription and recruitment for military personnel to
>  fight a war from which there is no just cause or
>  result; and
>
>  WHEREAS, the cost to the nation, including the City of
>  Chicago, is estimated to be more than 200 billion
>  dollars, thus depleting the reserves, harming the
>  economy, and resulting in further neglect of education,
>  health care, housing, and the infrastructure, as well
>  as other services desperately in need of repair or
>  reform; and
>
>  WHEREAS no one to date has been able to articulate why
>  war on Iraq is in the interest of American citizens;
>  and
>
>  WHEREAS, a war with Iraq has been declared by nearly
>  all U.S. religious leaders as unjust; and
>
>  WHEREAS, many national security experts, including the
>  Director of the CIA, state that an attack on Iraq is
>  more likely to result in the use of weapons of mass
>  destruction than will a policy of containment; and
>
>  WHEREAS, the leaders of most Middle Eastern and Muslim
>  nations warn that an attack on Iraq is likely to spur
>  even more animosity toward the U.S. from Muslims around
>  the world and fuel even more Islamic radicalism
>  directed against us; and
>
>  WHEREAS Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist
>  network remain a serious threat to our nation that
>  demands security attention; and
>
>  WHEREAS, United Nations' led inspections have been far
>  more effective in eliminating weapons of mass
>  destruction than have been all the bombing during the
>  Gulf War; and
>
>  WHEREAS, a war with Iraq is unneeded, unjust, and poses
>  a real threat to our nation and our democratic
>  traditions and rights;
>
>  NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE GOVERNING BODY OF
>  THE CITY OF CHICAGO hereby voices our opposition to any
>  preemptive strike or act of war contemplated by the
>  President and the Congress of the United States, and
>  resolves that no war against Iraq be undertaken at any
>  time by the United States unless as a response to a
>  direct military attack by Iraq.
>
>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the governing body
>  reaffirms The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
>  the principles of international law, and calls on the
>  Bush administration and our representatives in Congress
>  to provide leadership in encouraging peace, democracy,
>  and respect for human rights in Iraq and throughout the
>  Middle East.
>
>  PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS __day of ______, 2002
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>  Draft-November 26, 2002
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>Amira Nuha
>www.staff.uiuc.edu/~mgdavis
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>educate a nation."
>Ghanaian Proverb
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