Fw: [ANSWER]: A.N.S.W.E.R. response to Bush

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>]

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> A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S
> NATIONAL TELEVISION ADDRESS OF SEPTEMBER 7, 2003
>
> President Bush's illegal war and occupation of Iraq has
> left the Administration in a position of extreme political
> vulnerability. He now wants the United Nations and U.S.
> taxpayers to bail him out. Having defied U.S. and world
> public opinion - which preemptively opposed his planned,
> illegal invasion of Iraq - the Bush administration wants
> to internationalize responsibility for the U.S. quagmire
> in Iraq. With U.S. casualties mounting daily he wants the
> soldiers of other countries to do more of the dying to
> take the heat off himself at home. And in the name of
> fighting international terrorism he wants the already
> suffering working class, poor and middle class communities
> to foot the bill to the tune of another $87 billion
> (triple what they had projected). Having had his public
> rationale(s) for the war exposed in recent weeks as a
> complete fraud, Bush shamelessly reverts to the
> time-tested tactic of trying to scare the hell out of
> people.
>
> President Bush's conduct on Iraq - before, during and now
> after the Iraq war - has made the old cliché about truth
> being the "first casualty in war" to be a grand
> understatement. Everything about this "pre-emptive war" is
> premised on deceit. Even in the realm of ever duplicitous
> "world politics," the Administration's pattern of cynical
> deception was and remains breathtaking. Tonight's
> nationally televised address conforms to this pattern of
> endless deceit.
>
> 1) Bush lied before the war. Iraq never posed a grave and
> imminent danger to the United States. Iraq had nothing to
> do with September 11th. Iraq never possessed nuclear
> weapons. Iraq was not rapidly trying to develop weapons of
> mass destruction. This was a war of aggression against the
> second-largest oil producer on the planet that had been
> weakened by a decade of economic sanctions and political
> isolation.
>
> 2) Bush lied during the war. This was not liberation. The
> Iraqi people did not welcome the U.S. armed forces as
> liberators but as occupiers. Their lives did not become
> better. On the contrary, this culturally rich society has
> been torn apart, deprived of necessary services to sustain
> civilian society and on the brink of internal collapse.
>
> 3) Bush is lying now. Iraq is not the battlefield between
> "international terrorism" and the forces of so-called
> "freedom" and "civilization." The growing resistance to
> U.S. occupation is the consequence of an angry and proud
> people in Iraq who insist on reclaiming their own
> sovereignty. Having killed tens of thousands of Iraqis in
> an illegal invasion - and a growing number of dead and
> maimed U.S. soldiers - the Bush team wants U.S. taxpayers
> to spend at least another $87 billion on the occupation of
> Iraq. The vast majority sentiment in Iraq wants the U.S.
> soldiers to leave and the U.S. GIs want to go home. The
> Iraqi people's call to end the occupation is not a call
> for even more foreign nations to occupy it and to take a
> share in the looting of Iraq's natural resources. The
> truth is that the invasion and occupation of Iraq is
> viewed by the people of the Middle East as an act of
> "international terrorism" and as such it can only lead to
> a dangerous escalation in the cycle of violence.
>
> Why did Bush address the nation tonight? He, like Nixon a
> generation ago, fears that the people of the United States
> are turning against this criminal war. During his
> administration, Bush has only rarely felt that he must
> address the people, and does so when he fears that a
> sentiment is growing strong enough to challenge his
> illegal actions. He must then lie more to convince the
> people of the U.S. to support his criminal endeavors, or
> at least acquiesce in them. His shameful "top gun" act
> aboard the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Lincoln, in front
> of a "Mission Accomplished" banner, was an effort to tell
> people in the United States and around the world that the
> war was over and that no more critical attention need be
> focused on Iraq. Tonight, with that lie laid bare, he is
> seeking to go a new route, to convince people that far
> from being over, the war is a high stakes game to save
> "civilization" and "freedom" and that it requires endless
> sacrifice in human life and vitally needed resources.
>
> The A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition calls on people in the United
> States to join together for a massive demonstration in
> Washington DC on October 25th to demand "Bring the Troops
> Home Now, End the Occupation of Iraq." Tens of thousands
> will be in the streets that day as the antiwar movement
> picks up new momentum. For information about
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> http://www.internationalanswer.org
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