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News update 10-28-05
On the Indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
The World Can't Wait Organizers Say: Indictments Fuel November 2nd Demonstrations to Drive Out the Bush Regime

The indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr. for perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the federal grand jury that is investigating the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity is just the tip of the iceberg of lies, fraud and intimidation knowingly used by this administration to go to war. The people behind all of this — including Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove and Rumsfeld — remain in power and are still pursuing an illegal, immoral and unjust war. This highlights the urgency of the November 2nd demonstrations to drive out the Bush regime called by World Can't Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime in over 70 cities and 40 campuses nationwide.

Libby and others in the administration were attempting to punish someone for daring to expose one of their knowing lies, lies that have led to the deaths at this point of over 100,000 people. Even the very small charges that Libby faces for what in fact are war crimes drives home the utterly illegitimate, illegal and immoral character of the war against Iraq, and of the regime that cooked this up and is now prosecuting it.
Debra Sweet, WCW National Coordinator, on the indictments:
"This indictment constitutes reason enough to drive Bush out of office, and shows the urgency for people to turn out on November 2, demanding that this regime be driven out.

"The indictment does not mean that the threat posed by the Bush Regime has passed; on the contrary, people like Bush are more dangerous when they are cornered. Progressive change only happens when people in their millions struggle for it.

"But it does mean that Bush is scrambling and that many millions of people are more open to hearing the truth and acting on it. Now is the time for people who really do want to see change to come into the streets on November 2 and take mass, independent political action to drive out the Bush regime."

The World Can't Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime and the November 2 actions have been endorsed by Cindy Sheehan, Howard Zinn, San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano, Nobel-prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, Gore Vidal, Cornel West, former US diplomat Ann Wright, Michael Eric Dyson, and thousands more.