-Caveat Lector- This is encouraging news! Public dissent rising from all directions...
Speak Out wrote: > This is interesting!!! A full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, > Monday, January 13, 2003, page A5 reads as follows: > > A Republican Dissent on Iraq. > > To President Bush, his advisors and the American People: > Let's be clear: We supported the Gulf War. > We supported our intervention in Afghanistan. > We accept the logic of a just war. > But Mr. President, your war on Iraq does not pass the test. It is > not a just war. > The candidate we supported in 2000 promised a more humble nation in > our dealings with the world. We gave him our votes and our campaign > contributions > That candidate was you. We feel betrayed. We want our money back. > We want our country back. > War is the most extreme action a society can take. I can only be > unleashed after exploring every other road. You have not explore all > the roads. > How many young American lives will be lost in this dubious war? How > many more innocent Iraqis will be killed and maimed and made > homeless? Haven't they suffered enough, after two decades of terrible > wars and sanctions? > Among the one billion Muslims in the world there is now a steady > trickle of recruits going to Al Qaeda. You will turn the trickle into > a torrent. A billion bitter enemies will rise out of this war. > And out of war may rise an Iraq regime every bit as brutish as the > present one. What will you do then? Our jaws drop when we read that > you may decide we have to occupy Iraq for years, that the next ruler > of Iraq may be...an American general! Is there anyone in this country > who thinks this will work? Your odds of success are infinitesimal! > The world wants Saddam Hussein disarmed. But you must find a better > way to do it. Why would you lead us into a situation where we are > bound to fail? You cannot keep proclaiming peace while preparing for > war. You are waltzing blindfolded into what may well be a > catastrophe. Pride goeth before a fall. Show the humility and > compassion that led us to elect you. > > War with Iraq is not inevitable. Now is the time to stop it. Speak > out at your place of worship, at your business, among your friends > and relatives. Make your convictions know to your Mayo and Governor > and -above all-to your elected leaders in Washington. > > (signed) > Edward H. Hamm, Republican Regent, former Chairman, The Northland > Company * Richard S. Johnson, Founder, former CEO, Hotjobs.com * > Barbara Lifflander, President, Hastings Art Ltd. * Huyler C. Held, > Esq. John C. Haas, Rohm & Haas (Ret.) * Howard S. Brembeck, Found CTB > Inc., Chairman, Fourth Freedom Forum * Betty B. Blauner * Peter A. > Benoliel, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Quaker Chemical > Corporation * Vice Admiral (ret.) John J. Shanahan * Chris Berghogg * > Starr Tomczak, Attorney * George Zeo, Psy. D. * Professor Jeffrey G. > Barlow, Ph.D. * Lind and Larry Black, Owners, College Park Bicycle, > Inc. and Mt. Airy Bicycles, Inc. * Albert Lowe * Rober Mumford, > President, Matzel and Mumford Org. * Martine REsick, Chapter > President, World Federalist Assn., Pittsburgh, PA * Paul Hally, Esq. > * Elizabeth Viering * Peter B. Viering, Atty. * Brenda Ungerland, > M.A. LifePath * Brooks Jealous * Nancy F. Puls * Pamela Davis * Frank > K. Marin, CFA, Managing Partner, Martin Capital Management, LLP > Affiliations for identification only. > > (There is a form to clip out that reads:) > Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities > PO Box 1976 Old Chelsea Station > New York NY 10113. > Enclosed is my tax-deductible contribution of $ ___. 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I have had plenty of opportunity in my > post in > Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to > the > Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of > power, and > they are helping to keep it there." > > —William E. Dodd, US German Ambassador 1937 > > People who are willing to give up freedom for the > sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. > ---Benjamin Franklin > > Never cease in the fight for peace, justice, and equality for all people. Be >perisitent in all that you do and don't allow anyone to sway you from your >conscience. ---Leonard Peltier > > Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.---Albert >Einstein > > ::{{AwarComp}}::Open Membership---Any One May Join---Invite a friend! 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