Greens/Green Party USA. 18 July 2002.
No Blood For Oil -- Stop the War Against Iraq.
Excerpts.
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Green Party USA spokesperson Mitchel Cohen charged today that George Bush's warmongering threats make him a far greater danger to world peace than Saddam Hussein. "I'm no Saddam hugger, but if we want someone to step down from office," Cohen said, "the world would benefit if George W. Bush would do so."
The Green Party USA blasted Junior Bush's administration for Escalating the oil-pipeline global domination policies of Papa Bush as well as the Democrats, and denounced government plans for an all-out bombardment Of Iraq.
"The Green Party USA condemns this brazen act of lawlessness on the part of the US government which is in clear violation of the UN Charter and International Law," Cohen charged.
Cohen announced that the Green Party USA has endorsed the call for nonviolent antiwar activities across the country on September 11th initiated by the California-based organization Global Exchange, and its spokesperson Medea Benjamin.
Green Party USA representative from Maine, Nancy Oden, added: "The Green Party wants Iraquis and other people throughout the world to know that there are millions of Americans who oppose the war crimes being planned by the White House. Silence is complicity. It is time for all of us to Speak Out against the coming massacre, stop Bush's 'endless war,' and prevent the Bush administration from using the Bill of Rights as a rag to wipe their shoes."
During the 1991 Gulf War, the US dropped more than 88,000 tons of explosives in a 42-day period, killing more than 200,000 Iraqis.
"Economic Sanctions imposed on Iraq since August 1990 and continuing to this day have taken the lives of a million civilians -- mainly children under the age of five. Sanctions have proven to be weapon of mass destruction," Oden said, "and the Green Party USA is organizing to stop this war."
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