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[bstw] Emergency Fallujah Protest - Tue. 5pm
Let's meet at the Berkeley BART at 4:30pm on Tuesday
Emergency Demonstration: Stop the
Fallujah Attack! U.S. Out of Iraq!
Tues. 11/9, 5pm
Powell & Market, San Francisco
Top U.S. Marine in Iraq Calls for Massacre in
Fallujah
U.S. troops entered the western outskirts of the city on Monday
seizing a hospital and two bridges over the Euphrates River. The U.S.
has surrounded the sealed off Fallujah and is preparing to launch the
complete destruction of the city. They have told the people that any
traffic on the street is now subject to attack and any males between
the ages of 15 and 55 who go outside will automatically be killed by
the U.S. soldiers. The U.S. is terrorizing and bombing the citizens of
Fallujah every night, recently targeting and fully destroying its
emergency hospital, collapsing homes around families, dismembering
children. Many of the 300,000 population have fled for their lives,
everything they have ever had left behind or destroyed.
Now the top enlisted Marine in Iraq has called on his troops to
commit war crimes against the tens of thousands of remaining residents
and what stands of that proud and historic city. Referring to
the assault on the ancient citadel city of Hue, destroyed by U.S.
soldiers in Vietnam, Sgt. Maj. Carlton W. Kent told an assembled group
of 2,500 Marines in a "pep-talk": "You're all in the
process of making history. This is another Hue city in the making. I
have no doubt, if we do get the word, that each and every one of you
is going to do what you have always done - kick some butt."
(AP, November 7 2004)
The U.S. moved to reoccupy Hue after Vietnamese forces has
liberated it in the Tet Offensive of 1968. The Under Secretary of the
Air Force, Townsend Hoopes, described the results of the U.S. assault
on Hue in a March 1968 memo as leaving "a devastated and
prostrate city. Eighty per cent of the buildings had been reduced to
rubble, and in the smashed ruins lay 2,000 dead civilians... Three
quarters of the city=EDs people were rendered homeless and looting was
widespread, members of the ARVN [U.S. backed South Vietnamese troops]
being the worst offenders." (Noam Chomsky's forward to the papers
of the 1967 International War Crimes in Vietnam Tribunal)
The resistance in Iraq is carrying out coordinated efforts across
the country to dislodge U.S. occupation forces with attacks on police
stations and other targeted representatives of U.S. puppet
installations. In recent days many U.S. soldiers have been badly
wounded and there is more to come as the U.S. military leadership
predicts the most bloody urban fighting since Vietnam. The U.S. is
using all of its firepower, night vision, high-tech weaponry, and
bombing capacity against defenseless civilians as well as resistance
fighters primarily armed with Kalishnakov rifles and improvised
explosive devises. With all this military might, the U.S. is unable to
stop the Iraqi people from fighting for their national sovereignty.
The U.S. installed "prime minister" of Iraq has today
declared martial law in Iraq for the next two months aggregating even
greater unilateral authority.
This is no time for anti-war and progressive people in the U.S.
to "mourn," dwell and lament on the failure of the
Democratic Party candidate to defeat the Republican Party candidate,
at least not those who are really committed to ending this criminal
war and securing justice at home. If nothing else, we all know that if
Kerry was President-elect, nothing would be different for the people
of Iraq right now. Kerry has not condemned the bombings of Falluljah
at any point, nor the attacks on the Iraqi people, nor the use of U.S.
soldiers as cannon fodder in this war of aggression and
conquest.
Now the people of Fallujah wait for the next attack, and the U.S.
soldiers wait for their orders to carry out actions that they will
have to reconcile for the rest of their lives, if they survive.
A.N.S.W.E.R. activists across the U.S. are planning emergency
demonstrations the DAY AFTER a reinvasion of Fallujah. We call on
other committed organizations and activists to also initiate such
actions, at local federal buildings, recruiting stations, or
traditional public assembly locations.
Please make a commitment today to fight for change. If you
can help take the next steps by making a contribution please do so by
clicking here.
http://www.pephost.org/ANSWERdonate
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
http://www.answercoalition.org/
info@internationalanswer.org
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
New York City: 212-533-0417
Los Angeles: 323-464-1636
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
For media inquiries, call 202-544-3389.
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I apoligize
Fri, Nov 12, 2004 10:11PM
DMH
Fri, Nov 12, 2004 5:39PM
hmm
Fri, Nov 12, 2004 10:28AM
nice try
Fri, Nov 12, 2004 9:28AM
DMH
Thu, Nov 11, 2004 5:44PM
DMH
Thu, Nov 11, 2004 5:10PM
sorry DmH
Thu, Nov 11, 2004 3:31PM
What?
Thu, Nov 11, 2004 10:47AM
DMH-- better grammar version
Wed, Nov 10, 2004 7:14PM
DMH--
Wed, Nov 10, 2004 3:47PM
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