DIRECT ACTION TO STOP THE WAR: BUSH LIES NOT ABSOLVED BY CAPTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
Direct Action to Stop the War http://www.actagainstwar.org December 14, 2003 CONTACTS: Direct Action to Stop the War Media Hotline 415-305-5345
Patrick Reinsborough, DASW 415-722-1846
We sincerely hope that the capture and prosecution of Saddam Hussein will end a painful era of repression and tyranny for the Iraqi people. However, it is imperative that, as US citizens, we remain out-spoken in our support of a free and self-governing Iraqi people. This historic opportunity for justice must not trade the tyranny of Saddam Hussein for the tyranny of a U.S. corporate controlled state.
The successful capture of Saddam Hussein does not exonerate the Bush administration's systematic deception of the American people or justify the unilateral invasion of Iraq. The evidence continues to mount that the invasion was based on a dangerous new framework for American policy based on pre-emptive militarism and imperial control of global resources.
The Bush administration has a moral imperative to answer questions regarding the consequences of this invasion on the Iraqi and American people. The recent revelation of Halliburton's price gouging is just the latest example of a Bush administration that has consistently put their corporate connections ahead of public safety, international law and the rights of the American people to make informed democratic decisions. While over a hundred billions dollars in being pumped into the Iraq occupation, according to one Boston Globe estimate, the War may cost every American household $1000.
While our schools, healthcare and basic human needs continue to lose funding, corporations with close ties to the Bush Administr ation like Bechtel, Chevron Texaco, and Chase Manhattan continue to fill their corporate coffers with the spoils of an illegal and unjust war.
We will continue our work to educate, organize and mobilize the American people to end the ongoing occupation of Iraq and to build a true democracy in the United States.
Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) -- The community based mobilization which organized a 20,000 person shut down of the San Francisco financial district in response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq - has consistently highlighted the links between U.S. corporate interests and Bush's empire- building policies. In solidarity with affected communities, DASW has organized non-violent direct actions against Bechtel, ChevronTexaco, Lockheed Martin, Autonomy Corporation and the Carlyle Group. DASW continues to expose the links between U.S. militarism and corporate globalization by organizing actions against the World Trade Organization, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
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