Bush Lied: Fire Him!
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Everyday we pick up the paper and are horrified at what is happening in
Iraq. We have to bring responsibility to where it belongs, to Bush. In the
midst of daily bombings, his administration has started an aggressive PR
blitz, telling us things are getting better in Iraq. Bush says, "Just ask
people who've been there." CODEPINK has been there, three times. We know
better. We know more than 7,200 Iraqi civilians and 330 U.S. soldiers have
been killed to date, and more are being killed every day.
We know countless millions of Iraqis continue to be deprived of affordable,
reliable access to electricity, clean water, gas, and medical care. And we
know while nearly seven million Iraqis are out of work, the U.S.
sub-contractors even tried rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with cheap
migrant labor from South Asia and are selling off virtually all of Iraq's
industries to transnational corporations. We bombed to buy, as Naomi Klein
recently observed.
Don't wait until the election in 2004 to fire Bush. This is an opportunity
for you to let him know that he is out of office. For those of you who don't
know, a pink slip is what you get when your employer wants you out. As
thousands of people take to the streets on October 25th, CODEPINK will kick
off a campaign to Pink Slip Bush!
We started this push to pink slip Bush on October 25th with coordinated
drops of giant pink slips in San Francisco and Washington DC!
This action will end on November 17; CODEPINK's one year anniversary!
During these three weeks get together with your local CODEPINK group and
make your own pink slip and send it to the Washington, DC office. We'll
display the growing number of slips in a daily lunchtime vigil in front of
the White House as we let Bush know he's out the door in 2004!
Join others in a Fast For Peace!
Why are we firing Bush? Check out the Top Ten Lies of the Bush
Administration.
Pink Slip Bush!
Pink Slips are a wonderful, creative way to spread the word and make a
statement. Get them at your local thrift store, dye white slips or decorate
them with a colorful message to Bush!
Create your own Pink Slips and display them in your community! Send
personalized Pink Slips firing Bush to the Washington DC office where they
will be displayed daily in front of the White House.
Send Pink Slips to :
Code Pink
733 15th Street, NW #507,
Washington, D.C. 20005
Let all the CODEPINKers know what you're up to! Share slip ideas, messages,
songs and chants.
Send photos of your pink slips to: webmi...@codepinkalert.org.
Fast For Peace
CODEPINK has started a vigil and a fast. Diane Wilson began that fast. She
needs your help today as we fast in solidarity to end the occupation in
Iraq.
Click to join the fast for a day, a week or longer.
Click to see the list of fast participants (updated twice daily)
Background:
Diane Wilson, the Texas fisherwoman began the fast and vigil last year, and
she has begun
her fast again to bring attention to the need to end the occupation and
bring the troups
home now. . Many joined the fast and the vigil outside the White House last
year. Nobel Prize Winner, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, fasted for 40 days
outside the White House while waiting for her request to meet with Bush to
discuss peace, a request that was never even acknowledged. Diane Wilson also
began the fast to free the Dominican Nuns.
Top Ten Lies of the Bush Administration
www.misleader.org
George Bush and his administration drove us to war with Iraq on a wave of
deception unprecedented in American history. On the eve of battle, President
Bush said war was required because of Saddam Hussein's connection to "...the
terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001." Now Bush admits
"we've had no evidence" of such a connection.
Two years ago, President Bush said, "Veterans are a priority for this
administration... and that priority is reflected in my budget." But, a year
ago, when he had a chance to approve an emergency funding bill that included
$275 million for medical care of veterans, he said, "We'll spend none of
it."
3. Dick Cheney charged that Saddam "has reconstituted nuclear weapons."
Now Cheney admits: "I did mis-speak."
4. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld asserted two weeks ago that "the funds the
president requested are vital to our success in the global war on terror and
to our ability to finish the job in Iraq." But that position is being
undermined by a Congressional Research Service (CRS) study that has found
that Iraq military operations have sufficient funds until May of next year.
5. Donald Rumsfeld claimed, regarding weapons of mass destruction: "We
know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad..." Now,
Rumsfeld maintains he "never believed" that they would be found quickly.
6. President Bush himself is actively trying to counter news of
unhappiness among the troops left behind in Iraq, saying conditions are "a
lot better than you probably think. Just ask people who've been there."
When military journalists for Stars and Stripes interviewed soldiers on the
ground the military newspaper reported. "Some troops ... say they've been
ordered not to talk to VIPs because [military] leaders are afraid of what
they might say." Half the soldiers who spoke to Stars and Stripes described
their unit's morale as low.
7. Despite President Bush's rhetorical claim that "the best safeguard
against abuse is full disclosure," Republican Senator Arlen Specter compares
the lack of candor from the Administration about the Patriot Act to "a big
black hole."
8. Contrary to the message in President Bush's ads that Clear Skies would
"create purer air, better health and a more brilliant future in the United
States" the initiative, in fact, would allow U. S. power plants to discharge
additional amounts of sulfur dioxide, mercury, and nitrogen oxides than
permitted under the existing Clear Air Act. Sulfur dioxide and the other
pollutants are associated with diseases such as emphysema and asthma that
disproportionately afflict Hispanics and other minority populations.
9. Even though seven million Iraqis are unemployed, U.S. sub-contractors
are rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with cheap migrant labor from South
Asia. The use of Asian laborers is at odds with President Bush's emphasis on
the importance of Iraqis taking on the job themselves.
10. One week after the August blackout that left 50 million Americans
without power, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham refused to separate grid
modernization from the rest of the energy bill and place it on a fast track.
Abraham's refusal contradicted President Bush's promise immediately
following the blackout to take action to "determine whether or not our grid
needs to be modernized."