Don't Attack Iran
By Cindy Sheehan
04/12/06 "ICH" -- -- Fresh from a resounding victory in Iraq,
George Bush swaggered onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln
and boldly and confidentally declared victory. It was a pretty
war, it was a clean war, it looked stunning in all of its shock
and awe. Wow, never was there such a swift and amazing American
victory and it all looked so damn glamorous on CNN!
As fake as his codpiece was, so was his "cakewalk" of an
invasion. Over 2000 thousand dead soldiers, billions of wasted
dollars, thousands of maimed young people, innocent Iraqis dead
by the hundreds of thousands, still no consistent electricity or
clean water in their country, later, and this swaggering
imbecile of a "leaker in chief" has the nerve to be trying to
sell all of us on a new war in Iran.
Do the warped neocons with their puppet president think that we
are all stupid? Fool us once, shame on us, fool us, -- well, we
just can't be fooled again.
"But our objective is to prevent them from having a nuclear
weapon," GWB, on Iran, 04/10/06 at Johns Hopkins University. So,
let me get this straight, in order to prevent Iran from
acquiring nuclear, or "nucular" weapons, we will use tactical
nuclear weapons on them! The continued hypocrisy of this regime
is absolutely breathtaking!
Even having nuclear weapons is crazy, but talking about
deploying them is sheer insanity. Retired General Anthony Zinni
said on CNN today that Iran would not just sit back and do
nothing if attacked: they have the means and the capability to
retaliate. Our young people in Iraq would be sitting ducks along
with Israel and our supply of natural gas and oil could be
greatly compromised. I have an even scarier reason: I, and
others, believe that using tactical nukes in Iran could start
WWIII or IV. With all of the "Left Behind" religious fanatics
praying for Armageddon, this thought is made even scarier by the
fake believers in the White House who are exploiting the
neo-Christian idea that Jesus was a war monger and anything our
great leader does is okay, because he is a Christian man!
By putting the focus on nuclear strikes we are also forgetting
the appalling destructive power that conventional weapons wield.
We must not even, for one moment, contemplate a conventional
invasion in Iran either. No matter how George Bush lies about
how rosy things are in Iraq, they aren't, and Iraq is proof that
war of any kind is a horribly tragic way to solve problems.
We must not believe BushCo or anything they say about Iran. He
has lied through his teeth so many times before: From WMD and
terrorism in Iraq to the fact that no one could "anticipate" the
levees breaking in New Orleans. He was the leaker of the
documents that outed Valerie Plame, while he promised us that
the leaker would be punished. We must not allow him to frighten
us into this one.
The doctrine of preemptive war is an abominable doctrine,
especially when we have such a vacuum of leadership in this
country that rubberstamps any maniacal thing that this president
wants to do. We cannot allow our leaders to destroy the world by
jousting with windmills that are no threat to our safety, or our
way of life.
We must elect leaders that will get at the root causes of
terrorism and not pretend that every terrorist can ever be
killed to satisfy some kind of primeval bloodlust that flows
through the war machine's veins. When our leaders go terrorist
hunting, they kill innocent men, women and children and they,
themselves, become the very thing that they are trying to teach
us to loathe.
Please go to
Don't Attack Iran and sign the petition to our "fearless
with other people's lives" leaders and tell them that you do not
support an attack on Iran.
We members of Gold Star Families for Peace, Code Pink Women for
Peace, Traprock Peace Center, AfterDowningStreet.org,
Democrats.com, Progressive Democrats of America, The Velvet
Revolution, and Global Exchange urge you to sign the petition
prohibiting our leaders from committing more war crimes and
crimes against humanity in our names. We must loudly repudiate
the crimes lest we be accused of them also.
We cannot allow an attack on Iran. We must restore sanity to our
country if it's not too late already.
Cindy Sheehan is the
proud mother of Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan, who was KIA in
Iraq on 04/04/04, and Carly, Andy, and Janey who hold down the
fort; Founder and President of
Gold Star Families for Peace and author of
Not One More Mother's Child.
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