[Peace] Fwd: War is the Issue

[Jay Mittenthal]

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>From: Campaign of Conscience <conscience at topica.email-publisher.com>
>Subject: War is the Issue
>Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:56:29 -0700
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>Campaign Update
>  In This Issue: Sept. 20, 2002
>•   Dramatic U.S. policy shift
>•   Week of Action Days to begin Monday
>•   Help prevent war with Iraq!
>•   First Peace Team Delegation to Iraq
>•   Keep sending in signatures for Peace Pledge
>•   Letter from Baghdad
>  Dramatic U.S. policy shift
>Today the Bush administration officially unveiled "The National Security 
>Strategy of the United States." This strategy articulates a foreign policy 
>based on overwhelming military power and a doctrine of preemptive strikes. 
>The policy will be used to threaten Iraq, undermine collective decisions 
>of the UN, and will alienate any potential allies. It has already replaced 
>diplomacy in foreign relations, illustrated by the United States' 
>dismissal of Iraq's offer to allow unconditional weapons inspection. It 
>clearly underpins a rush to war.
>
>The article describes the policy as follows: "It sketches out a far more 
>muscular and sometimes aggressive approach to national security than any 
>since the Reagan era. It includes the discounting of most nonproliferation 
>treaties in favor of a doctrine of 'counterproliferation,' a reference to 
>everything from issile defense to forcibly dismantling weapons or their 
>components."
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaxt9aaTDCna3FWSZe/>Read the full article from 
>The New York Times.
>  Help prevent war with Iraq!
>If you do not believe peace and security can be achieved through war in 
>Iraq, CALL, FAX, E-MAIL and WRITE your representatives. Next week the 
>House and Senate will vote on a resolution calling for war against Iraq... 
>You need to weigh in NOW.
>
> >From what we hear, phone calls carry more weight than other forms of 
> communication. Faxes come in second.
>
>According to Friends Committee on National Legislation: This week, under 
>mounting international pressure, the government of Iraq said it would 
>allow UN weapons inspections to resume without conditions, reversing its 
>previous position. The head of the UN inspection team (UNMOVIC), Hans 
>Blix, quickly met with Iraqi officials to begin making arrangements for 
>the return of the inspectors.
>
>The Bush administration dismissed the Iraqi offer, saying it was just 
>another ploy to stall for time and thwart united action by the UN Security 
>Council (UNSC). The Administration is continuing to press the UNSC to 
>adopt a new resolution that would require Iraq to come into compliance 
>with UNSC resolutions soon or face the consequences.
>
>CONTACTING LEGISLATORS
>Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
>
>CONTACTING THE ADMINISTRATION
>White House Comment Desk: 202-456-1111
>FAX: 202-456-2461
>E-MAIL: president at whitehouse.gov
>WEB PAGE: http://www.whitehouse.gov
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaxt9aaTDFqa3FWSZe/>See the FCNL Legislative 
>Action Message.
>  Keep sending in signatures for Peace Pledge
>Hundreds of people are signing the Iraq Peace Pledge every day. This week 
>the list reached 14,000 signatures, with many more pouring in. This list 
>represents a community of people who speak with one voice for peace with Iraq.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaxt9aaTDK3a3FWSZe/>Sign the Peace Pledge.
>  Week of Action Days to begin Monday
>U.S. religious leaders are inviting widespread participation in "a season 
>of peacemaking" -- to include prayer, faxing, phoning, and visits to 
>Capitol Hill and local Congressional offices to oppose preemptive military 
>action against Iraq. The National Council of Churches is among organizers 
>of the effort, called "Challenging the Rush to War Against Iraq." It will 
>run Sept. 23-27 and continue Sept. 30 and Oct. 10-11.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaxt9aaTDDDa3FWSZe/>See more details.
>  First Peace Team Delegation to Iraq
>Seven U.S. citizens are traveling to Iraq to oppose sanctions and a new 
>war on Iraq. They are: Barbara Lubin, David Smith-Ferri, and Leah Wells of 
>California; Nathan Mauger of Washington; Danny Muller of Illinois; Bill 
>Quigley of Louisiana; and Henry Williamson of South Carolina.
>
>They compose the first Iraq Peace Team, a project of Voices in the 
>Wilderness, a campaign to end economic sanctions on Iraq. The goal of this 
>project is to put several hundred international peace activists in Iraq 
>before and during a U.S.-led attack. Activists will publicize the effects 
>of a possible or ongoing war on Iraqi civilians and be available to media 
>as non-partisan witnesses. They will also volunteer with these non-Iraqi 
>NGOs: UN Development Project, Bridges to Baghdad, and Enfant du Monde.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaxt9aaTDEEa3FWSZe/>Read more about the first 
>Iraq Peace Team.
>  Letter from Baghdad
>An article by Edward Miller, Mennonite Central Committee staff member in 
>Iraq, describes how an impending military attack by the United States 
>affects people in Baghdad. "Few doubt that something will happen, and 
>frenzied defense preparations are underway at higher levels. But the most 
>tangible effect over the last few weeks has been a downturn in economic 
>activity.
>
>"One shopkeeper told me he will have no choice but to close his business. 
>Taxi drivers and shoeshine boys say they must work longer and longer hours 
>to make their normal income. People are saving already stretched monetary 
>resources, unwilling to spend, but no one admits to stocking up on food or 
>fuel."
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaxt9aaTDE5a3FWSZe/>Read the full article.
>Campaign Updates are edited by Peter Lems and Melissa Elliott
>AFSC Iraq Peace Building Program
>1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
>phone: 215-241-7170; fax: 215-241-7177
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