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Posted 10:44 PM by The Moderator

The Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), U.S. Section, rejects all acts of violence and war. We call on U.S. citizens, from all sectors of society, to reject war-making and military domination worldwide by the U.S. government. We oppose President Bush's War Resolution, put before Congress and expected to be debated and voted on during the week of September 30, giving him authorization to use the United States armed forces against Iraq. We implore all members of Congress to thoughtfully consider their vote on the War Resolution and the will of the American people. We hope that they will, in the interests of humanity, vote against this resolution.
Complete statement: WILPF

Posted 11:45 PM by The Moderator

The Labour Party members who oppose Tony Blair on the war have released their "counter-dossier," written by Alan Simpson, MP, Chair of Labour Against War and Dr. Glen Rangwala, lecturer in politics at Cambridge. Please copy and distribute widely.

The counter-dossier is a definitive statement against going to war with Iraq. It was written as a formal statement of the Labour Party "rebels" to rebut Tony Blair's arguments for joining the US in this war. Tony Blair is going to release his dossier in support of going to war against Iraq at 8 am (London time) on Sept 24th. He is giving MPs precious little time to consider it as debate starts that very day. The counter-dossier provides the foundation for those in the Labour Party who oppose the war.

This is a great document of historical significance. It contains bold truth that has not been widely reported in the US media, such as the fact that the US and UK blocked condemnation of Iraq's known chemical weapons attacks at the UN Security Council. No rresolution was passed during the war that specifically criticised Iraq's use of chemical weapons, despite the wishes of the majority to condemn this use.

This authoritative document needs to be widely distributed to members of Congress and to the US media.

Sunny Miller, Executive Director
Charlie Jenks, President of the Core Group
Traprock Peace Center
103A Keets Road, Deerfield, MA 01342 (413) 773-7427
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Posted 9:19 PM by The Moderator

True Majority
Dear Senator or Representative,
I am very concerned about talk in Congress of continuing down a path to a unilateral preemptive invasion in Iraq. We, as a nation, demanded that the U.N. enforce previously drafted resolutions against Iraq and within days Iraq agreed to comply with inspections. Certainly there can be no danger in allowing time for and supporting the return of inspectors as the first step in bringing Iraq into compliance with U.N. resolutions. The only way to a multilateral resolution to our concerns about Iraq's weapons is through the U.N., so let's support the action we demanded. Let's not be the bullies Pres. Bush claims Saddam to be. Let U.N. inspections proceed with our full support. [Easy one-step fax]

Posted 9:11 PM by The Moderator

PeacePledge.org
Sponsored by a growing coalition of national and local anti-war groups, the Iraq Peace Pledge is a way for you to:
~Publicly register your opposition to war on Iraq
~Add your name to a national list of citizens opposed to war that will be delivered to Congressional offices
~Join a coordinated national campaign to prevent a war with Iraq (choose ways to get involved below)

American Friends Service Committee, American Humanist Association, Education for Peace in Iraq Center, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Interfaith Network of Concern for the People in Iraq, Lutheran Peace Fellowship, National Network to End the War Against Iraq, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Voices in the Wilderness.

Posted 8:55 PM by The Moderator

We Need 'Weapons of Mass Instruction' -- Books Not Bombs
No War Against Iraq!
We, the undersigned librarians, library workers and archivists want to say emphatically and forcefully that, in our view, by far the greatest threat to the US and, more exactly, to democracy in the US, is not Iraq and Saddam Hussein, but politicians who have made the short-term calculation that they would be better served in their careers by following our ignorant and arrogant Commander-in-Chief and his flunkies into an open-ended, potentially global, conflict of inestimable cost in money, cultural and social destruction, and human lives, and to do that while, even here in the richest of nations, our available resources are presently so inappropriately allocated, even without war, that they do not adequately address basic needs and fundamental human welfare for increasing numbers of US citizens.
No one believes that Saddam Hussein's Iraq. a former close ally of the US in its prior conflict with Iran, and already once quite extensively destroyed by the regime of the father of the present US Commander in Chief and beggared, too, with years of crippling sanctions insisted on by the US, is an imminent threat to the US or to NATO or that there is any credible proof that it has committed anything like an act of war according to international law.

It is the utmost cynicism born of the overestimation of imperial global power that our leaders will enthusiastically or reluctantly, depending on their PR image, follow George W. Bush and his war junta into an unpredictably volatile, but predictably protracted, war against what will become, in effect, a war against the masses of the entire Muslim world, people's with whom we have many unexplored options for creative and mutually beneficial cooperation and no reason for irrational armed confrontation.

As humanists and people devoted to public service, dedicated to education, to dialogue and to the peaceful resolution of conflict, we condemn any act of aggression by US, NATO or UN forces against the people or the sovereign nation of Iraq, without regard to the nature of the present regime and how we feel about its leadership (about which, frankly, most of us currently feel most negatively), and we urge our elected representatives to stop the rush to war against Iraq being orchestrated by the Bush regime and urge the re-allocation of prospective resources, slated to be wasted in such pointless global horror, to use for socially constructive ends both here in our own country and abroad.

The cost of war to the Iraqis will be devastating. The cost to us may find our democracy itself as the ultimate victim of the increasingly common acceptance acceptance of "preemptive strikes", "collective punishment", "collateral damage" and an unconstitutional "homeland security" regime.

Instead of preparing for war. let us arm the human spirit with "Weapons of Mass Instruction".
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