{news} Fw: GP RELEASE Greens were right on Iraq, Dem & Repub warhawks wrong

Mon Mar 13 07:26:26 EST 2006



> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
> http://www.gp.org
> 
> For Immediate Release:
> Monday, March 13, 2006
> 
> Contacts:
> Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
> mclarty at greens.org
> Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
> starlene at greens.org
> 
> 
> Greens and other antiwar Americans were right on Iraq;
> prowar Republicans and Democrats were wrong
> 
> . Evidence of deceit and impending disaster existed
> before Bush invaded Iraq; "Being right doesn't make us
> proud, it makes us angry" say Greens.
> 
> . Events are planned to mark the third anniversary of
> the invasion of Iraq.
> 
> 
> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party candidates and leaders
> marked the beginning of the fourth year of the Iraq
> War with a reminder that Greens and millions of other
> Americans who opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq were
> right from the very beginning.
> 
> "All those Republican and Democratic White House
> officials and leaders in Congress and their apologists
> in the media who supported the invasion of Iraq were
> dead wrong, and many were complicit in the prowar
> lies," said Jeff Kravitz, Green candidate for U.S.
> Representative in California's 5th District
> (Sacramento) <http://www.kravitzforcongress.org>. 
> "Some of them -- especially warhawk Democrats like
> Senators Clinton [NY], Kerry [Mass.], and Biden [Del.]
> -- are still wrong."
> 
> Greens, led by the party's Peace Action Committee
> (GPAX) <http://www.gp.org/committees/peace>, will mark
> the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in
> numerous events planned for the weekend of March 18. 
> GPAX has endorsed the Troops Out Now call for March 18
> and 19 and International Days of Action Against the
> War, with protests at military recruiting stations
> throughout the U.S.  The North Carolina Green Party is
> co-sponsoring the Third Rally and March in
> Fayetteville, near Ft. Bragg (contact: Elena Everett,
> <greentararaider at yahoo.com>).
> 
> GPAX and the state Green Parties of North Carolina,
> Michigan, Florida, and Oklahoma have endorsed the Gulf
> Coast Vet and Katrina Survivor March
> <http://www.vetgulfmarch.org>, which begins Tuesday,
> March 14, and ends Sunday with an Antiwar-Gulf
> solidarity rally in New Orleans.
> 
> Last week, Greens called for the release of Cindy
> Sheehan, Green Party member Medea Benjamin, and other
> antiwar protesters who had been arrested in New York
> on March 6 for demanding immediate withdrawal of all
> U.S. troops, which the Green Party supports.  The
> party has also called for no permament military bases
> left behind in Iraq, an end to torture and other
> illegal treatment of prisoners, a halt to domestic
> attacks on civil liberties, and steps to break the
> U.S. addiction to oil, and has consistently opposed
> the war on Iraq since President Bush first threatened
> an invasion:
> 
> . Greens warned in late 2002 and early 2003 that the
> Bush Administration was lying to American citizens and
> to the world when it claimed that Saddam Hussein
> possessed WMDS, that he has conspired with al-Qaeda,
> that Iraq had connections with the 9/11 attacks, and
> that Saddam had sought nuclear weapons materials from
> Africa.
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_09_27_02.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_10_25_02.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_01_19_03.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_02_10_03.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_02_13_03.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_02_14_03.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_03_20_03.html
> http://www.gp.org/impeachbush/
> 
> "Evidence already existed that President Bush lied
> about our reasons for invading Iraq when he delivered
> his January, 2003, State of the Union speech," said
> Rae Vogeler, Wisconsin Green Party candidate for U.S.
> Senate <http://www.VoteRae.org>.  "The Downing Street
> memo confirmed that intelligence was 'fixed' to
> support the war."
> 
> . Greens warned in March, 2003, that U.S. forces would
> use illegal weapons materials, including depleted
> uranium and cluster bombs; that the Bush
> Administration was already violating the law in the
> treatment of prisoners; and that contractors like
> Halliburton were poised to profiteer from the
> invasion.
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_03_20_03.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_05_12_03.html
> 
> . Greens have warned repeatedly that an invasion of
> Iraq would inflame Muslim anger against the U.S.,
> strengthening al-Qaeda and making the world less
> secure.
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_03_20_03.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_01_20_04.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_07_08.shtml
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_09_19.shtml
> 
> . In July, 2003, the Green Party of the United States
> called for the impeachment of President Bush for
> deceiving the American people and for violation the
> U.S. Constitution, and for withdrawal of U.S. troops
> from Iraq.
> http://www.gp.org/impeachbush/
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_07_21_03.html
> 
> . Calling for immediate withdrawal, Greens warned
> repeatedly in 2005 that continued occupation might
> lead to civil war in Iraq.
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_02_02.html
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_09_19.shtml
> http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_10_26b.shtml
> 
> "The thousands of Americans, including Greens, who
> protested in the streets in early 2003 were right,"
> said Michael Berg, Delaware Green candidate for U.S.
> Representative <http://www.bergforcongress.us>, who
> was thrust into the role of prominent spokesperson for
> the peace movement when his son Nick was abducted and
> killed on May 7, 2004 in retaliation for the torture
> of Iraquis in Abu Ghraib prison.  "We need to hold
> public officials who got us into the Iraq war
> accountable.  Being right doesn't make us proud, it
> makes us angry and sorrowful for the needless deaths
> of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the more than
> 2,300 U.S. servicemembers, and the hundreds of
> civilian contractors."
> 
> 
> MORE INFORMATION
> 
> Green Party of the United States
> http://www.gp.org
> 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
> Washington, DC 20009.
> 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
> Fax 202-319-7193
> 
> Green Party rebuttal to President Bush's 2006 State of
> the Union Address (Video News Release)
> http://www.gp.org/video/2006stateofunion
> 
> 
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