"W" is for War
Dear Felix
As Karl Rove and his team strive to define and control the parameters of the campaign, you and I are subjected to all manner of insults to our individual intelligence and our collective dignity. To wit, Bush in Iowa on July 20:
“Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president…. For a while we were marching to war. Now we're marching to peace. ... America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safe and the world will be more peaceful.” (1)
Talk about flip-flopping and trying to have it both ways! What do they take us for?
We have decided it’s time to do a little framing, defining and most of all, truth telling.
I hope that you will help out.
As part of our Peace Voter 2004 campaign, we are revealing what “W” (as in Dubya) really stands for: W is for War.
As you know, the Bush Cheney record and rhetoric confirm this. How many times have we heard Bush play the war and fear card and, when it suits him, say “I’m a wartime President”(2)—the message being: fall in line behind me, our survival depends upon it (In a statement revealing the unmitigated gall he specializes in, Dick Cheney said recently that the U.S. would be hit with more terrorist attacks if John Kerry were president!).(3)
Bush and Cheney conveniently leave out that THEY have, strategically, chosen that role. There were no WMDs in Iraq and there was no immediate threat to the U.S. from Iraq.
The “W is for War” bumper sticker tells the world the truth and helps to begin the conversation about where we want to go as a country. Do we want or can we afford a government that chooses war and lies to achieve its ends?
Bush and Cheney’s intent is clear. In order to retain power, they intend to keep our country in a siege stupor to suppress thoughtful examination of their record. They intend to stay in power though fear… Yellow Alert…Orange Alert…Red Alert for November?(4)
This, again, is a choice by Bush and Cheney.
We must make a different choice. The legions of enemies that occupation can produce are limitless.
Security will be found through a New Foreign Policy based on the pursuit of justice, peace and the rule of law. This must be our choice.
The lies and obfuscations put forth by the White House are an effort to escape responsibility for the results of their choice to pursue war. They do not want to be held accountable for over one thousand US service people who will never come home, and for the thousands of Iraqi civilians killed in the war and occupation.(5)
Bush and Cheney don’t want to be held responsible for the staggering sums of our tax money -- over $135,000,000,000 and counting -- being spent in Iraq, (6) or for the obscene profits administration-connected companies are making off the death and mayhem the administration unleashed.(7)
To counter the malicious propaganda spewing forth from the White House (and being echoed and amplified by the corporate media) we must all chip away at their edifice of lies. We can do that by defining Bush and sharing what we know to be true.
Together we will repeat the truth hundreds of thousands of times to people across America: W is for War.
Please help and say no to the lies by ordering your “W is for War” bumper stickers today.
For Peace,
Kevin Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action
P.S. A bumper sticker alone will not stop the Bush lies, but as Bobby Kennedy once said, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Act today.
The merger of Sane and The Nuclear Freeze
1100 Wayne Ave, #1020
Silver Spring MD 20910
Notes:
1. “Both candidates often shift positions” By Tom Raum AP Writer 09.15.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=7&url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Flipping%20and%20Flopping
2. Ibid
3. “Vote for Bush or die,” By Ellen Goodman The Cincinnati Post 09.14.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=8&url=http://www.cincypost.com/2004/09/14/ellen091404.html
4. “Bush's dubious terror alerts,” Bill Berkowitz WorkingForChange 08.19.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=9&url=http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=17495
5. Iraq Body Count http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=10&url=http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ 09.15.04
6. National Priorities Project http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=11&url=http://www.costofwar.com/ 09.15.04
7. The thief of Baghdad Pratap Chatterjee - CorpWatch 08.26.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=12&url=http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=17544
As Karl Rove and his team strive to define and control the parameters of the campaign, you and I are subjected to all manner of insults to our individual intelligence and our collective dignity. To wit, Bush in Iowa on July 20:
“Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president…. For a while we were marching to war. Now we're marching to peace. ... America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safe and the world will be more peaceful.” (1)
Talk about flip-flopping and trying to have it both ways! What do they take us for?
We have decided it’s time to do a little framing, defining and most of all, truth telling.
I hope that you will help out.
As part of our Peace Voter 2004 campaign, we are revealing what “W” (as in Dubya) really stands for: W is for War.
As you know, the Bush Cheney record and rhetoric confirm this. How many times have we heard Bush play the war and fear card and, when it suits him, say “I’m a wartime President”(2)—the message being: fall in line behind me, our survival depends upon it (In a statement revealing the unmitigated gall he specializes in, Dick Cheney said recently that the U.S. would be hit with more terrorist attacks if John Kerry were president!).(3)
Bush and Cheney conveniently leave out that THEY have, strategically, chosen that role. There were no WMDs in Iraq and there was no immediate threat to the U.S. from Iraq.
The “W is for War” bumper sticker tells the world the truth and helps to begin the conversation about where we want to go as a country. Do we want or can we afford a government that chooses war and lies to achieve its ends?
Bush and Cheney’s intent is clear. In order to retain power, they intend to keep our country in a siege stupor to suppress thoughtful examination of their record. They intend to stay in power though fear… Yellow Alert…Orange Alert…Red Alert for November?(4)
This, again, is a choice by Bush and Cheney.
We must make a different choice. The legions of enemies that occupation can produce are limitless.
Security will be found through a New Foreign Policy based on the pursuit of justice, peace and the rule of law. This must be our choice.
The lies and obfuscations put forth by the White House are an effort to escape responsibility for the results of their choice to pursue war. They do not want to be held accountable for over one thousand US service people who will never come home, and for the thousands of Iraqi civilians killed in the war and occupation.(5)
Bush and Cheney don’t want to be held responsible for the staggering sums of our tax money -- over $135,000,000,000 and counting -- being spent in Iraq, (6) or for the obscene profits administration-connected companies are making off the death and mayhem the administration unleashed.(7)
To counter the malicious propaganda spewing forth from the White House (and being echoed and amplified by the corporate media) we must all chip away at their edifice of lies. We can do that by defining Bush and sharing what we know to be true.
Together we will repeat the truth hundreds of thousands of times to people across America: W is for War.
Please help and say no to the lies by ordering your “W is for War” bumper stickers today.
For Peace,
Kevin Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action
P.S. A bumper sticker alone will not stop the Bush lies, but as Bobby Kennedy once said, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Act today.
The merger of Sane and The Nuclear Freeze
1100 Wayne Ave, #1020
Silver Spring MD 20910
Notes:
1. “Both candidates often shift positions” By Tom Raum AP Writer 09.15.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=7&url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Flipping%20and%20Flopping
2. Ibid
3. “Vote for Bush or die,” By Ellen Goodman The Cincinnati Post 09.14.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=8&url=http://www.cincypost.com/2004/09/14/ellen091404.html
4. “Bush's dubious terror alerts,” Bill Berkowitz WorkingForChange 08.19.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=9&url=http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=17495
5. Iraq Body Count http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=10&url=http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ 09.15.04
6. National Priorities Project http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=11&url=http://www.costofwar.com/ 09.15.04
7. The thief of Baghdad Pratap Chatterjee - CorpWatch 08.26.04 http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=1142370&url_num=12&url=http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=17544
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