The Stop War on Iran! Campaign offers you a way to adapt a draft statement and send it to both the White House and Congress regarding the plans for war on Iran.[1] -- "[N]one of the claims made by the U.S. government [about Iran] stand up to unbiased scrutiny," the model statement says, calling attention to the hypocrisy of the demands coming from the United States, the only "government that has used nuclear weapons against civilian populations, and that same nation has the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction on the planet," as well as to the U.S.'s shameful record of conduct toward Iran: "Iran has suffered greatly at the hands of the U.S. We recall the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Dr. M. Mossadegh and returned the Shah to the Peacock Throne -- the proudest achievement of the CIA. For 25 years the Shah ruled Iran with an iron fist for the benefit of U.S. oil corporations before the people of Iran, in the millions, overthrew his tyranny at a terrible cost in lives. For the past 27 years U.S. sanctions have impeded Irans right to development and brought great suffering to the people." -- So far more than 6,000 have signed....
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STOP WAR ON IRAN! CAMPAIGN
** Tell Bush and Congress: Stop the War on Iran Before It Starts **
February 12, 2006
http://www.stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml
Please join the online campaign to STOP THE WAR ON IRAN BEFORE IT STARTS!
YOUR EMERGENCY ACTION IS NEEDED NOW!
Send emails to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice, U.N. Secretary-General Annan, Congressional leaders and the media demanding NO WAR ON IRAN!
Complete the following easy steps:
--Step 1: Enter your contact/signature information
--Step 2: Edit/tailor our sample letter to send
--Step 3: Preview the mail that will be sent and approve the recipients, and
--Step 4: Send the message!
SAMPLE TEXT (you will be able to edit it in step 2):
President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rice, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary General Annan, Senators and Representatives,
It is with grave concern that I observe the growing threat of a new U.S. war -- this time against the people of Iran.
The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. to take military action. These reports recall the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq.
In the lead up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Bush Administration asserted that Iraq possessed massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and that it was capable of launching an attack -- nuclear, chemical, and biological -- on the U.S. within 45 minutes.
President Bush said that the U.S. had to attack immediately, and could not "wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." We all know now that this propaganda campaign was a complete fabrication created to justify a war of aggression.
Now we see reports that are all too similar being made to justify military action against the people of Iran. Taking Iran to the U.N. Security Council is a prelude for unilateral action. Just as in the case of Iraq, none of the claims made by the U.S. government stand up to unbiased scrutiny. Iran has submitted to the most intrusive and humiliating inspections, above and beyond what is required by Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). None of the inspections have found any evidence that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program.
There is only one government that has used nuclear weapons against civilian populations, and that same nation has the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction on the planet. Most dangerous and incredible it is at this very moment developing a new generation of tactical nuclear weapons that it intends to use, not merely to threaten. That country is, of course, the United States. Shouldn't any real discussion of the dangers of nuclear weapons include the weapons stockpiled by the Pentagon and the history of U.S. aggression and interventions?
Iran has suffered greatly at the hands of the U.S. We recall the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Dr. M. Mossadegh and returned the Shah to the Peacock Throne -- the proudest achievement of the CIA. For 25 years the Shah ruled Iran with an iron fist for the benefit of U.S. oil corporations before the people of Iran, in the millions, overthrew his tyranny at a terrible cost in lives. For the past 27 years U.S. sanctions have impeded Irans right to development and brought great suffering to the people.
It is essential that all voices opposed to the devastation of a new war in the Middle East speak out now. I urge an immediate end to Washington's campaign of sanctions, hostility, and falsehood against the people of Iran. I oppose any new U.S. aggression against Iran. We need funds for human needs, not endless war for empire.
Sincerely,
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