Speak Out Against the Planned Assault on Falluja! (anitwar rhetoric - we MUST counter them)

United For Peace ^ | November 7, 2004 | United For Peace

[Former Military Chick]

Speak Out Against the Planned Assault on Falluja!

November 5th, 2004

Speak Out Against the Imminent Assault on Falluja!

• Contact your local media outlets to denounce the planned attack
• Call the White House to express your outrage: 202-456-1111
• Get ready for street protests should the full-scale assault begin
• Download and distribute leaflet


Does the Bush administration plan to destroy Falluja in order to save it?

News reports indicate that the Bush administration will soon launch a major military assault on Falluja. More than 10,000 U.S. soldiers are amassing on Fallujah’s outskirts, and U.S. warplanes are already bombing neighborhoods around the city.

If the U.S. carries out this assault, it will dramatically increase violence and chaos in Iraq. It will not bring about the peace and security that Iraqis greatly desire. The military occupation has already fueled anger and resentment against the U.S. and swelled the ranks of terrorist groups. We need to bring the troops home now and adopt a new approach that will move us toward peace, sovereignty, and security.

Military officials believe Falluja is the home of the nation-wide insurgency. Their goal in this assault is to induce other insurgent-held cities to capitulate before scheduled elections in January, and send a message to all Iraqis that opposition to the occupation has a high price.

U.S. officials and U.S.-installed Prime Minister Allawi say their only goal is “to liberate the people and to bring the rule of law to Falluja.” But when the U.S. military besieged Falluja last April, at least 600 Iraqis were killed, most of them civilians. Given the scale of the threatened assault, far more Iraqi civilians could be killed this time around, as well as many U.S. and Iraqi soldiers.

We will be sending you more information, resources, and calls to action should Falluja in fact suffer a major attack. But in the meantime, we urge you to begin raising a loud public outcry against the Bush administration’s planned assault.

TAKE ACTION!

* CONTACT YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS
Flood your local media outlets with messages of opposition to the impending assault on Falluja. Write letters to the editor and send in opinion pieces. Call in to your local talk radio stations. Ask reporters if they would like to interview an anti-war activist.

* TELL PRESIDENT BUSH YOU OPPOSE THE ASSAULT ON FALLUJA
- Call the White House switchboard at 202-456-1111. The switchboard operator will likely forward you to the White House comment line, but you can only leave a message there Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. If you can’t get through, leave your message with the operator. It’ll make it to the President.

- Leave a webmail message at https://sawho14.eop.gov/PERSdata/intro.htm . Be sure to select “write a differing comment,” “National Security,” and “Iraq.”

* GET READY FOR STREET ACTION
If the assault on Falluja or any other major military escalation takes place in Iraq, we will need to be as visible and vocal as possible with our antiwar message. Make sure your group or organization is aware of what's happening; start planning local protest activities and post them on our calendar.

If you are not already in a group, click here to locate an organization near you.

* KEEP ABREAST OF DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ
Get up-to-date news from Iraq from Occupation Watch; be sure to join their email list for regular updates.

For more information on the Falluja build-up, see these articles:
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7608
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7534

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[txhurl]

The left wasn't grown-up enough to look at the photos of or understand what Fallujah did to those four men.

[Eastbound]

"Does the Bush administration plan to destroy Falluja in order to save it? "

What total idiots. Falluja will be destroyed to destroy it, for the 'rats' are glued to the floor. We are here not to concur with 'seizure,' but to raze him.

[fire_eye]

Actually, the annexed states prospered under the Romans, as well. The Romans did incorporate them into the Empire, but in return they got the protection of, and citizenship in, the Empire, and free trade in and out of Rome. They were a lot better off for the most part.

Of course, if they *resisted*, well... heh heh

[Andrew LB]

I just sent them a letter:


To whom it may concern,

I’m so glad you guys are taking it upon yourselves to protect islamo-fascist terrorists like Zarqawi and his buddies. They do not deserve death and should be allowed to continue their reign of terror over the people of Fallujah and the rest of Iraq. Those evil Americans have no right to stop him from chopping off heads, blowing up children getting candy from US troops, or from setting off car bombs in front of police stations…. Killing Iraqi’s helping the evil US tyrants.

May Allah protect him so he may gain more strength so he could plan future attacks on US soil.

-Andrew

[Technical Editor]

Newsweek/MSNBC reported this in its coverage today (although it's toward the end).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6420967/site/newsweek/

[conshack]

These folks are anarchists and are not likely to respond to anything we do or say. If the media didn't give them the attention, they'd have no effect whatsoever. Afew cracked skulls might get their attention, but then there would be interferance from the ACLU.
Let's hope the media takes a little different approach now that their liberal candidate has been squashed.

[Robert_Paulson2]

they get their funding from private citizens on the public dole... MOST of which are on social security under the 'americans with disabilities act' for things like; cronic stress disorder, drug addiction, back injuries, grotesquely obese, diagnosed depression, diagnosed schitzoid or schzitzophrenia, bi-polar disorder... and the like.

Yes folks.
This is where the 'welfare to work' inner city nutcakes and whackjobs went for PERMANENT disability payments that are going on without review under Social Security.

This is what social welfare workers advised them to do when the spigot on social welfare programs were terminated under the Congress' and Bill Clintong's 'welfare to work' legislation. You a coke addict? Did a little damage to your liver or brain via the use of drugs? Tired from multiple infections of sexually transmitted diseases that have wrecked your immune system, or permanently damaged your nerve receptors?

then you TOO can be an inner city, piercing laden, aid's carrying, drug addicted PERMANENT FOR LIFE SOCIAL SECURITY recipient under the Americans with disability act.

THAT IS where they are getting their income. That is where they are free to run the streets all day, and raise hell over 'social issues' because they don't work for a living and they get the money to send regular and major portions of their social security payments, even though they have not worked for most of their adult life...

Bush needs to CUT social security programs that don't relate to Seniors... and end the American's with disability loopholes wherein these asses get billions of dollars in federal aid, to support their insanity, their lifestyles and their drug habits.

Defund the left...
End the fraud that is being perpetrated... and forget about trying to get at the root of their income... the US government IS the source...

thanks to bill clintong.

time for a few executive orders.

[TeleStraightShooter]

From the Sedition Act of 1918:

SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States ... shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both....

This law is no long in effect, and for good reason.
However, I bring it up to illustrate what I think should be a baseline for legitimate opposition. Once the antiWar movement crosses that line, then their activies should viewed with the same contempt that is reserved for Nazis.
Society, and the Media, should scorn them as such.

[garylmoore]

If they are such peace freaks, why do they continue to insist on destroying America!!! Don't ya just want to spank them and slap their mama and slug their daddy! OK, now I'm having too much fun!!!

Love this post!

[Baytovin]

"More than 10,000 U.S. soldiers are amassing on Fallujah’s outskirts...". Come on you guys...we just lost an election...let's not let the American Imperialist Pigs beat us in Fallujah too....

[Robert Drobot]

Worked for Germany and Japan.

Roger that.

[bert]

Peace through war!

Remember, peace is the anomaly. War is the natural condition.

[Constantine XIII]

I'm sorry, but this idiocy just p1$$3s me off to no end.

Where are were these morons when North Korea was starving 2 million people to death, or Vietnam was (and still is) killing off Christians in the mountans, or when Sudan started killing all the Christians and blacks, or when the incident in Rwanda occured, or when Slick attacked Yugoslavia, or etc?

*scream of frustration*

[Constantine XIII]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

[bitt]

let em protest....

and remind them that their favorite president Clintoon diddled while the moslem world grew more powerful and emboldened.

too bad W41 was influenced by the UN and didn't take care of it in 1991....

[DTogo]

I wonder when the actions of these Far Left-wing groups will turn violent, so we can finally call them what they are and police them up here at home once anf for all. I'm all for free speech, but we all know these groups are just a front for global Communism and would love to see our way of life and government overthrown.