Congress Wraps in Flag, Turns Back on Country
Sheryl McCarthy
October 10, 2002
In the summer of 1950, Charles Rangel's Army unit, the Second Infantry Division, left Fort Lewis, Wash., for South Korea to fight the North Koreans and the Chinese.
Fifty-two years later, that same division is still mired in Korea, guarding the South against the North, says Rangel, who was wounded there. So it's with no little knowledge of war that he believes that for the United States to make war on Iraq would be a terrible mistake.
If some enemy were planning to attack the United States, and we had the evidence, "I'd have no problem with a pre-emptive strike and taking them out," Congressman Rangel, who has represented Harlem for 32 years, told me the other day. But going to war against Iraq at this time would be wrong, he said.
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It's Now Congress's war Too!
We did what we could. We called, e-mailed, sent letters and petitions to our representatives, marched, and held vigils. The Government did not listen.
The time has come to escalate; Mass Action is now the necessary. Civil Disobedience must now be a tactic that we use. Below you will find out who voted for and against war. In addition, a very good press conference
led by members of the House that voted No. We must thank them and the 23 Senators who also said no to war. Additionally we must not forget those who
voted yes on Election Day.
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Support for War Based on Bush Lies
While President Bush marshals congressional and international support for invading Iraq, a growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration's double-time march toward war.
These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses -- including distorting
his links to the al-Qaida terrorist network -- have overstated the amount of international support for attacking Iraq and have downplayed the potential
repercussions of a new war in the Middle East.
They charge that the administration squelches dissenting views and that intelligence analys ts are under intense pressure to produce reports
supporting the White House's argument that Saddam poses such an immediate threat to the United States that pre-emptive military action is necessary.
"Analysts at the working level in the intelligence community are feeling very strong pressure from the Pentagon to cook the intelligence books,"
said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A dozen other officials echoed his views in interviews.
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Excerpt From Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
(full text at: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html )
By Rev. Martin Luther King
4 April 1967
Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
When machines and computers, profit motives
and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
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Moving from a Culture of War to a Culture of Peace
by David Adams
On that dark day, September 11, the violence of the culture of war in the hands of men trained by the CIA in the far reaches of Central Asia converged
on New York City, home of Wall Street, and Washington, home of the Pentagon..
"Blowback," they called it. Not that such violence is new in the world, but this time it struck at the center of empire, with main-line television on
hand to broadcast.
And since that day, the forces of the culture of war, on all sides, calling for vengeance, have moved toward a reign of terror and repression throughout the world.
Martin Luther King wrote in Strength to Love: "Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil�hate
begetting hate, wars producing more wars�must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
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