Fw: "Vietnam Syndrome" haunts Bush

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Subject: "Vietnam Syndrome" haunts Bush




Iraq: Bush's Vietnam
We are coming together to build real unity
in mass protest on September 24
The "Vietnam Syndrome" - that strange malady in which the people of the U.S. 
turn decisively against a U.S. war of aggression in a far away third-world 
country - is coming back, and the White House knows it. The warmakers today 
will learn, as they did during Vietnam, that it is impossible to sustain 
such a war as the people of the U.S. turn the issue of the war into an 
unending "domestic crisis."
Public opinion has shifted so dramatically against the war in Iraq that Bush 
and his administration have turned this week into a P.R. campaign to, as the 
LA Times put it, "salvage public support on Iraq." Faced with a nose-dive in 
support for Bush's attacks on social programs at home and his imperial 
conquests abroad, the White House and the Pentagon are afraid of losing 
their grip and are undertaking a mass propaganda offensive to rein in the 
one thing they fear the most - the power of the people as they turn against 
the warmakers. This orchestrated campaign, however, has not begun well for 
them.
Yesterday, appearing before a Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing in a 
failed attempt to paint a positive view of the war, Army Gen. John Abizaid, 
the top commander for U.S. aggression in the Middle East, was forced to 
directly contradict Vice President Cheney's recent announcement that the 
Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes." Abizaid stated that the power of 
the Iraqi resistance was undiminished and added, "you'll forgive me from 
criticizing the vice president." Donald Rumsfeld again had to explain why he 
has "not resigned," and a Republican lawmaker from South Carolina who 
supports the war complained in the hearing that "Public support in my state 
is turning... People are beginning to question. And I don't think it's a 
blip on the radar screen. We have a chronic problem on our hands."
On September 24 the people of the U.S. have the opportunity to make history. 
The mass demonstration in Washington DC with coordinated actions in San 
Francisco and Los Angeles, initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition in 
partnership with other organizations who have come together to form the 
September 24 National Coalition, will be a powerful expression of an 
increasingly incensed population. This is the political force at home that 
is the single biggest threat to the ambitions of Bush and the warmakers. In 
the next months the growing outrage at the grassroots level can develop into 
a political force as potent as that faced by the Johnson and Nixon 
administrations three decades ago.
September 24 will make history for another reason. This demonstration will 
show what true unity looks like. This is a mass mobilization coming from the 
grassroots representing the voices of those who are most deeply affected by 
the U.S. government's assault on people at home and abroad, joining together 
in solidarity to stop the U.S. war machine. Mobilizing for the September 24 
March on Washington are communities, unions, military families, students and 
youth, and antiwar, social justice and civil rights groups.
Nothing will be more powerful than to have large numbers from every 
community marching shoulder to shoulder in opposition to the Bush 
administration's criminal war against Iraq and in opposition to Bush's 
global effort to crush all those struggling to exercise their legitimate 
right of self-determination free from empire and colonial domination.
The converse of unity is to divide, to segregate, to exclude. While the U.S. 
wages war against the people of the Middle East, the administration is 
waging a domestic war against the Arab-American, South Asian and the entire 
Muslim community inside the United States. It is imperative that everyone 
stand against segregation. The antiwar movement made a major step forward 
when it marched 100,000 strong on March 20, 2004, under the banner "Bring 
the Troops Home Now! End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti 
and Everywhere!" The Palestinian people affirming their right to return to 
their homes from which they were evicted, the Haitian people affirming their 
right to return their democratically elected President, and all of those who 
are struggling in opposition to colonial occupation and in support of 
self-determination and peace will march together with those fighting against 
the war in Iraq and those fighting for social justice at home as all 
recognize the interconnectedness of the struggle.
The war for empire and colonial conquest is not only a war against the 
people of the Middle East and other lands who the U.S. government seeks to 
subjugate, but it is also a war against the people of the U.S. as the 
government slashes monies for education, housing, healthcare and jobs to pay 
for war, intervention and occupation.
The leadership of the September 24 National Coalition includes the 
A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition, National Council of Arab-Americans (NCA), Muslim 
American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, Haiti Support Network, Alliance 
for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, National Lawyers Guild, Al 
Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Mexicanos Sin Fronteras / 
Mexicans Without Borders, Women's Anti-Imperialist League (WAIL), and 
A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth and Student National Coalition.


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