Kucinich: Bush Plans for a US War vs. Iran
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By Dennis Kucinich
September 23, 2006
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Urgent Letter from Dennis Kucinich about Bush Administration Plans for
a US War vs. Iran
Dear Friends,
The Bush Administration is preparing for war against Iran, using an
almost identical drumbeat of weapons of mass destruction, imminent
threat, alleged links to Al Queda, and even linking Iran with a future
911.
In the past few months reports have been published in Newsweek, ABC
News and GQ Magazine that indicate the US is recruiting members of
paramilitary groups to destabilize Iran through violence. The New
Yorker magazine and the Guardian have written that US has already
deployed military inside Iran. The latest issue of Time writes of
plans for a naval blockade of Iran at the Port of Hormuz, through
which 40% of the world's oil supply passes. Other news reports have
claimed that an air strike, using a variety of bombs including bunker
busters to be dropped on over 1,000 targets, including nuclear
facilities. This could obviously result in a great long term
humanitarian and environmental disaster.
Earlier this year, I demanded congressional hearings on Iran and was
able to secure the promise of a classified briefing from the
Department of Defense, the State Department and the CIA. When the
briefing was held, the Department of Defense and the State Department
refused to show and are continuing to block any congressional inquiry
into plans to attack Iran.
Just this past week, the International Atomic Energy Agency called
"erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated" statements relating to
Iran's nuclear program which came from a staff report of the House
Intelligence committee. Other intelligence officials have claimed over
a dozen distortions in the report which, among other things, said Iran
is producing weapons grade uranium. The Washington Post wrote: "The
IAEA called that `incorrect' noting that weapons grade uranium is
enriched to a level of 90 percent or more. Iran has enriched uranium
to 3.5% under IAEA monitoring."
I have demanded that the Government Oversight subcommittee on National
Security and International Relations, of which I am the ranking
Democrat, hold hearings to determine how in the world the Director of
National Intelligence, John Negroponte, viewed the report without
correcting the obvious inaccuracies before it was published. Once
again a case for war is being built on lies.
You will recall that four and a half years ago I warned this nation
about the deception behind the build up to war against Iraq.
Everything I said then turned out to be 100% right. I led 125
Democrats in opposing the Iraq war resolution in March of 2003. The
very same people who brought us Iraq in 2003 are getting ready to
bring us a war against Iran.
With your help, I will lead the way to challenge the Bush
Administration's march to war against Iran. Please support my campaign
for re-election with a generous donation to help continue my work in
the Congress. The plan to attack Iran, on its face, threatens the
safety of every US soldier serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to
mention the countless Iranian lives at risk and the threat to world
peace and environmental catastrophes.
With your support, I intend to continue to insist upon:
(1) Direct negotiations with Iran.
(2) The US must guarantee Iran and the world community that it will
not attack Iran.
(3) Iran must open once again to international inspections of its
nuclear program.
(4) Iran must agree not to build nuclear weapons.
Many of you joined me three years ago as I ran for President to
challenge the deliberate lies about WMDs, Iraq and 911, Iraq and Al
Queda and the Niger "yellowcake" claims which put us onto the path of
an unnecessary, illegal, costly war in Iraq. The Iraq war has caused
greater instability and violence in the world community. In the
meantime, our government has used the oxymoronic war on terror to
trample our Constitution, rip up the Bill of Rights and rule by fear.
Please join with me as we continue our efforts for the end of fear and
the beginning of hope, for international dialogue, for cooperation and
for peace.
Thank you,
Dennis
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