[Peace] the warmakers forged documents

[George Doubleyou]

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S EXPLANATION FOR A RUSH TO WAR HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A FRAUD: 

 

*UN Chief Nuclear Inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei's March 7 report to the UN exposed as a fraud the main U.S. argument about Iraq's supposed nuclear activities. For months, U.S. officials have cited Iraq's importing of aluminium tubes, and the purported effort by Iraq to purchase uranium from Niger as proof that Iraq posed a "grave and imminent danger." ElBaradei told the UN "there is no indication that Iraq has attempted to import aluminium tubes for use in centrifuge enrichment" of uranium into weapons-grade material. Powell was briefed on the falseness of the aluminium tube claim prior to his testimony before the U.N. on the subject last month, and made misrepresentations to the Security Council with this knowledge. ElBaradei also revealed that the documents cited by U.S. officials about the purchase of uranium by Iraq from Niger "are in fact not authentic" and were forgeries.

 

*To the dismay of the Bush administration, Hans Blix reported that Iraq was "pro-actively" co-operating with the inspectors and that the inspections could be fully completed and "will not take years, nor weeks, but months." Iraq originally agreed to accept the weapons inspections in 1991 with the promise that economic sanctions would be lifted when it was confirmed that it was "disarmed" of non-conventional weapons. Thus Iraq could be finally free of the economic sanctions that have killed more than one million Iraqis in the last decade. That the inspection process was constructed solely as a pretext for war is demonstrated by the fact that when the inspections failed to serve as a trigger for war, the administration had no further use for them. 

 

Confronted with the revelation of their own lies and concealment, Bush and Blair are rushing to begin the slaughter lest the growing global antiwar sentiment overwhelm their plans. The underlying premise of the White House propaganda for months can be summed up into one single message: This war will happen because no one can stop us. 

 

But each and everyone of us can join and support the tens of thousands of people who are holding an Emergency March on March 15 and conducting solidarity Stop the War actions all around the world. On March 15, workers in Italy are staging an anti-war General Strike. In Spain, Greece, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the UK, and in Los Angeles, San Francisco and cities around the world people are coming together in Emergency Mass Action on March 15 to stop the U.S./UK war against the people of Iraq.

 

Bush and Blair have announced a March 17 deadline for war. But the warmakers can still be stopped, and they know it. If it hadn't been for the worldwide uprising against the war the carnage would have started months ago. We can and must intensify the mobilisation for March 15.

 

While there are multiple plans for activities in the event of war or after war has begun, all people of conscience recognise that there are no planned actions more important than those called to prevent a war before it starts, and for people in the United States at this time that is particularly true. We must do everything in our power now to prevent the government of the U.S. from its planned killing in the Middle East. That is what makes the March 15 Emergency Convergence so crucial. 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.VoteNoWar.org 



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