Activists opposing the administration's war in Iraq and its war drum-beating policies toward Iran are asking for help.
They want members of Congress to speak out more forcefully to President Bush.
In an activity sponsored by Moveon.org, numbers of them are going to the Downtown Brooklyn Court Street offices of Representative Ed Towns this Thursday (Dec. 13 at noon) and dropping off petitions.
The petitions, part of a "Stop Bush's War with Iran" campaign, call on Congress members to pressure Bush to back off his inane and insane war rhetoric vis a vis Iran.
Moveon.org says: "Members
of Congress know they can't afford to be on the wrong side of another
war--but they need to know we're paying attention. When local residents
show up with thousands of petition signatures in hand, that message will
get through."
As Moveon reports, this past week new intelligence new intelligence revealed that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003, contrary to what Bush had been telling the American public.
Then Bush held a news
conference at which he actually tried to portray the news
that Iran isn't building a bomb as yet another reason to confront Iran.
Now only an obnoxious, dumb, full-of-himself politician would try to get away with that.
And only a dumb citizen would buy it.
(Above photo -- by Diane Greene Lent -- is of a demonstration by Brooklyn for Peace. That's the new name of the organization that for 23 year previously had been known as Brooklyn Parents for Peace. Their web site is: http://brooklynpeace.org.
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