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Three and a half years into a war that should never have been launched, Iraq has been plunged into a human, environmental, and geopolitical catastrophe of staggering dimensions. A new study estimates that over 650,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion and those still standing are captives to one of the most violent and unrestrained occupying forces the world has ever seen.
Whole villages wrapped in barbed wire”homes turned into prisons”thousands of men and boys dragged from their families and “disappeared””or stuffed into closets and killed in front of their children” children shot by snipers”hospitals and roads destroyed” women and girls raped” soldiers with nicknames like “Monster” and “King of Torture” acquitted”war-crimes green-lighted”and the desert sands are drenched with blood.
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Already preparations have begun for a new, possibly nuclear and even more devastating, war against Iran. And every bit of torture and degradation captured in the boastful pictures snapped at Abu-Ghraib prison has been made legal through the bipartisan approval of Bush’s Military Commissions Act.
This is what is being done in our names. None of it is tolerable.
Meanwhile, the very freedoms the U.S. purports to be extending at the barrel of a gun in Iraq are being savaged here at home. The President can snatch anyone off the street, hold them indefinitely without trial, and torture them merely on his say-so. Fascist theocrats unrelentingly assault science and the fundamental rights of women and gays. Vigilantes hunt immigrants as politicians cheer them on. And tens of thousands of black and poor victims of Katrina are still scattered more than a year after being left to die in the toxic floodwaters.
All this sanctified with a morality fit for the Dark Ages.
This is what is being done in our names. None of it is tolerable.
Far from the end, this is just the beginning of the Bush regime’s ambitions to radically remake the U.S. society and the world. Nothing and no one will be unaffected by this.
The world can not wait till 2008. The Bush regime must be stopped and driven from office.
Each of us is responsible. Get involved today:
Read and sign the Call on the back of this flyer.
Give money to support organizing efforts, advertising, and materials.
Volunteer! Call 866 973 4463 or write info@worldcantwait.org.
Gather friends together-or log on yourself–to watch the teach-in held in New York City on Monday October 30 called, “IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THINK: Where the Bush Regime Is Taking the World and Why They Must Be Stopped” worldcantwait.org
Drive out the Bush Regime!