STOP ANOTHER MISGUIDED UNNNECESSARY WAR!
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Categories: Action Alerts, Foreign Policy, National Security, Peace and Armed Conflict, Front Page
Categories: Action Alerts, Foreign Policy, National Security, Peace and Armed Conflict, Front Page
And stop higher gas and heating costs.
Though it seems the rhetoric of taking military action against Iran has been toned down due to dissent within power segments within the Bush Administration, as one baseball great has said, "it ain't over until its over." And the threat ain't over until January 2008 when the Bush regime goes ingloriously out of the White Houae and Barack Obama is our president. Thus, eternal vigilance warrants present action.
10 Ohio Congressional Reps* have co-sponsored a resolution that will increase chances of war with Iran and hurt people in their districts by raising fuel costs. AIPAC is the primary backer of this resolution, and we want to ensure that our representatives stand strong and not give into the false fear of appearing weak on national security.
We of PDA Ohio will be meeting with a local congressional representative's head legislative aide on Monday, August 18th to discuss this issues as well as others. We hope that you will do the same.
The resolution (H.Con.Res.362), with 220 co-sponsors:
• would starve innocent Iranian citizens by stopping gasoline imports;
• would stop and inspect "all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran"; and
• would prohibit most Iranian officials from international travel.
Translation: THIS IS A LAND AND NAVAL BLOCKADE, an act of war!
Every time we rattle the saber of war with Iran, oil prices increase. So we can expect that this resolution, which essentially approves Bush-Cheney aggressiveness and a bellicose foreign policy inimical to diplomatic, long-term solutions, to:
• Increase gasoline costs to perhaps $6/gallon (experts cited by Rep.Ron Paul)
• Drive up heating and RTA commuting prices
• Push food prices even higher
• Eliminate jobs because people can barely (or not) afford the basics
If we actually go to war:
• We're talking gas at $8-$10/gallon, big increases in food cost, loss of 1 million jobs nationwide, and loss of lives of our soldiers and of innocent Iranian citizens;
• "We'll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America." (Secretary of Defense Robert Gates);
• The consequences will be worse than Iraq which is already destroying us, e.g., "...this country (America) will not make any major advances in energy policy, in health coverage, in rebuilding its infrastructure, in improving its public schools or in curtailing runaway public and private debt until our open-ended commitment to this catastrophic multitrillion-dollar war comes to an end." (Bob Herbert, New York Times)
Resolution (H.Con.Res.362)will hurt everyone, low-income people most of all! For text of resoluton see:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110kaSh4R::
YOU CAN STILL DO SOMETHING TO STOP IT. If your congressional rep is named below, call their Washington, DC office (202-224-3121) and tell them that you don't want them to co-sponsor HCON Res.362.
You do want them to call for unconditional direct diplomacy with Iran, and support HCon Res. 321 , which takes a diplomatic approach to resolving regional problems in the Mideast.
See: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110TrQM4j::
There are alternatives to provide real security for the US and Israel WITHOUT WAR. Don't let Bush-Cheney (and this resolution) deceive us in thinking that the only choices are harsh sanctions or war on Iran. DEMAND OPEN DIPLOMACY!
*Chabot, Jordan, Latourette, Ryan, Schmidt, Space, Sutton, Tiberi, Tubbs-Jones, Wilson
We of PDA suggest local progressive and Democratic groups to make visits to the home offices of your congressional representatives if listed below asking them to unsign HCON Res. 362 and thank your rep if not signed on. We of PDA are working with Peace Action to ensure that no act of war occurs in the waning days of the lame duck Bush Adminstration.
For more information or to help, Mary Nichols-Rhodes, Ohio PDA Congressional District Organizer at mac40oh@gmail.com, 330-928-5347
Note: Much of the above information has been provided by our friends of Peace Action, and we thank them for their efforts.
Though it seems the rhetoric of taking military action against Iran has been toned down due to dissent within power segments within the Bush Administration, as one baseball great has said, "it ain't over until its over." And the threat ain't over until January 2008 when the Bush regime goes ingloriously out of the White Houae and Barack Obama is our president. Thus, eternal vigilance warrants present action.
10 Ohio Congressional Reps* have co-sponsored a resolution that will increase chances of war with Iran and hurt people in their districts by raising fuel costs. AIPAC is the primary backer of this resolution, and we want to ensure that our representatives stand strong and not give into the false fear of appearing weak on national security.
We of PDA Ohio will be meeting with a local congressional representative's head legislative aide on Monday, August 18th to discuss this issues as well as others. We hope that you will do the same.
The resolution (H.Con.Res.362), with 220 co-sponsors:
• would starve innocent Iranian citizens by stopping gasoline imports;
• would stop and inspect "all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran"; and
• would prohibit most Iranian officials from international travel.
Translation: THIS IS A LAND AND NAVAL BLOCKADE, an act of war!
Every time we rattle the saber of war with Iran, oil prices increase. So we can expect that this resolution, which essentially approves Bush-Cheney aggressiveness and a bellicose foreign policy inimical to diplomatic, long-term solutions, to:
• Increase gasoline costs to perhaps $6/gallon (experts cited by Rep.Ron Paul)
• Drive up heating and RTA commuting prices
• Push food prices even higher
• Eliminate jobs because people can barely (or not) afford the basics
If we actually go to war:
• We're talking gas at $8-$10/gallon, big increases in food cost, loss of 1 million jobs nationwide, and loss of lives of our soldiers and of innocent Iranian citizens;
• "We'll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America." (Secretary of Defense Robert Gates);
• The consequences will be worse than Iraq which is already destroying us, e.g., "...this country (America) will not make any major advances in energy policy, in health coverage, in rebuilding its infrastructure, in improving its public schools or in curtailing runaway public and private debt until our open-ended commitment to this catastrophic multitrillion-dollar war comes to an end." (Bob Herbert, New York Times)
Resolution (H.Con.Res.362)will hurt everyone, low-income people most of all! For text of resoluton see:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110kaSh4R::
YOU CAN STILL DO SOMETHING TO STOP IT. If your congressional rep is named below, call their Washington, DC office (202-224-3121) and tell them that you don't want them to co-sponsor HCON Res.362.
You do want them to call for unconditional direct diplomacy with Iran, and support HCon Res. 321 , which takes a diplomatic approach to resolving regional problems in the Mideast.
See: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110TrQM4j::
There are alternatives to provide real security for the US and Israel WITHOUT WAR. Don't let Bush-Cheney (and this resolution) deceive us in thinking that the only choices are harsh sanctions or war on Iran. DEMAND OPEN DIPLOMACY!
*Chabot, Jordan, Latourette, Ryan, Schmidt, Space, Sutton, Tiberi, Tubbs-Jones, Wilson
We of PDA suggest local progressive and Democratic groups to make visits to the home offices of your congressional representatives if listed below asking them to unsign HCON Res. 362 and thank your rep if not signed on. We of PDA are working with Peace Action to ensure that no act of war occurs in the waning days of the lame duck Bush Adminstration.
For more information or to help, Mary Nichols-Rhodes, Ohio PDA Congressional District Organizer at mac40oh@gmail.com, 330-928-5347
Note: Much of the above information has been provided by our friends of Peace Action, and we thank them for their efforts.
