Don't
Attack Iran
By Cindy Sheehan
12 April, 2006
Countercurrents.org
Fresh from a resounding victory
in Iraq, George Bush swaggered onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln
and boldly and confidentally declared victory. It was a pretty war,
it was a clean war, it looked stunning in all of its shock and awe.
Wow, never was there such a swift and amazing American victory and it
all looked so damn glamorous on CNN!
As fake as his codpiece was,
so was his "cakewalk" of an invasion. Over 2000 thousand dead
soldiers, billions of wasted dollars, thousands of maimed young people,
innocent Iraqis dead by the hundreds of thousands, still no consistent
electricity or clean water in their country, later, and this swaggering
imbecile of a "leaker in chief" has the nerve to be trying
to sell all of us on a new war in Iran.
Do the warped neocons with
their puppet president think that we are all stupid? Fool us once, shame
on us, fool us,—well, we just can't be fooled again.
"But our objective is
to prevent them from having a nuclear weapon," GWB, on Iran, 04/10/06
at Johns Hopkins University. So, let me get this straight, in order
to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear, or "nucular" weapons,
we will use tactical nuclear weapons on them! The continued hypocrisy
of this regime is absolutely breathtaking!
Even having nuclear weapons
is crazy, but talking about deploying them is sheer insanity. Retired
General, Anthony Zinni said on CNN today that Iran would not just sit
back and do nothing if attacked: they have the means and the capability
to retaliate. Our young people in Iraq would be sitting ducks along
with Israel and our supply of natural gas and oil could be greatly compromised.
I have an even scarier reason: I, and others, believe that using tactical
nukes in Iran could start WWIII or IV. With all of the "Left Behind"
religious fanatics praying for Armageddon, this thought is made even
scarier by the fake believers in the White House who are exploiting
the neo-Christian idea that Jesus was a war monger and anything our
great leader does is okay, because he is a Christian man!
By putting the focus on nuclear
strikes we are also forgetting the appalling destructive power that
conventional weapons wield. We must not even, for one moment, contemplate
a conventional invasion in Iran either. No matter how George Bush lies
about how rosy things are in Iraq, they aren't, and Iraq is proof that
war of any kind is a horribly tragic way to solve problems.
We must not believe BushCo
or anything they say about Iran. He has lied through his teeth so many
times before: From WMD and terrorism in Iraq to the fact that no one
could "anticipate" the levees breaking in New Orleans. He
was the leaker of the documents that outed Valerie Plame, while he promised
us that the leaker would be punished. We must not allow him to frighten
us into this one.
The doctrine of preemptive
war is an abominable doctrine, especially when we have such a vacuum
of leadership in this country that rubberstamps any maniacal thing that
this president wants to do. We cannot allow our leaders to destroy the
world by jousting with windmills that are no threat to our safety, or
our way of life.
We must elect leaders that
will get at the root causes of terrorism and not pretend that every
terrorist can ever be killed to satisfy some kind of primeval bloodlust
that flows through the war machine's veins. When our leaders go terrorist
hunting, they kill innocent men, women and children and they, themselves,
become the very thing that they are trying to teach us to loathe.
Please go to
Don't Attack Iran and sign the petition to our "fearless
with other people's lives" leaders and tell them that you do not
support an attack on Iran. We members of Gold Star Families for Peace,
Code Pink Women for Peace, Traprock Peace Center, AfterDowningStreet.org,
Democrat.com, Progressive Democrats of America, The Velvet Revolution,
and Global Exchange urge you to sign the petition prohibiting our leaders
from committing more war crimes and crimes against humanity in our names.
We must loudly repudiate the crimes lest we be accused of them also.
We cannot allow an attack
on Iran. We must restore sanity to our country if it's not too late
already.