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Greens world dominance { September 27 2002 } >
> THE GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
>
> MEDIA RELEASE
> For immediate release:
> Friday, September 27, 2002
>
> Contacts:
> Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator, 207-326-4576,
> nallen@acadia.net
> Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
> scottmclarty@yahoo.com
>
>
> GREENS WARN OF A CHENEY-RUMSFELD IDEOLOGY OF 'WORLD
> DOMINANCE' BEHIND BUSH'S PLANS FOR THE INVASION OF
> IRAQ
>
> The Bush Administration misleads the U.S. and world
> about the need for preemptive strikes, charge Greens;
> Congress urged to vote NO on giving Bush war powers
>
>
> WASHINGTON, DC -- Greens today warned that the likely
> U.S. attack on Iraq is part of the Bush
> Administration's ideology of global military dominance
> and disregard for international law. The Green Party
> of the United States, taking the lead as a national
> party in opposing President Bush's planned invasion,
> adopted a statement last week condemning the invasion
> and demanding measures based on multilateral
> cooperation and readmittance of U.N. inspectors to
> Iraq.
>
> "The invasion of Iraq can only be understood if we
> look past Bush's shifting and implausible stated
> justifications, and instead recognize the
> anti-constitutional, imperialist designs of Bush's
> Cabinet and closest advisors," said John Rensenbrink,
> U.S. Green Party Representative to the Global Greens
> Conference in 2001.
>
> Ironically, Greens agree with conservative Republican
> opponents of the invasion who foresee a collapse of
> civil liberties and constitutional law under the Bush
> plan for world order, but Greens also warn of a
> looming humanitarian and environmental disaster.
>
> "Many Democrats have fallen over themselves in their
> zeal to endorse the Bush Administration's plan to
> violate constitutional and international law and the
> U.N. Charter," said Tim Harthan, Iowa Green candidate
> for the U.S. Senate. "These Democrats are quite
> comfortable with Bush's quest for U.S. global military
> domination and disregard for law. The vote in
> Congress on giving Bush war powers will show the
> extent to which the Democratic Party has embraced the
> Cheney-Rumsfeld ideology. Bush is relying on
> Democrats, since the main opposition he faces comes
> from conservatives within his own party."
>
> "Bush officials base their arguments on
> misinformation, just as then-Secretary of Defense
> Cheney misinformed Congress and the American people in
> 1990 when he falsely warned that Iraqi forces were
> lined up and ready to invade Saudi Arabia," said Dick
> Kaiser, Green candidate for Congress in Wisconsin's
> 8th District.
>
> Greens cited the following evidence of Bush
> Administration's obfuscation, deception, and
> destructive ideology of global domination:
>
> *** Ex-Inspector Scott Ritter doubts that Iraq is
> capable of effectively producing and deploying
> chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. "The truth
> is Iraq is not a threat to its neighbors and it is not
> acting in a manner which threatens anyone outside its
> borders," Ritter has said. "Military action against
> Iraq cannot be justified." Ritter's assessment
> disputes Bush's mention of Iraqi weapons capability as
> a reason for the U.S. to invade. It's unlikely that
> Saddam would (or could) attempt anything as suicidal
> as an assault on the U.S. or its allies, except in the
> cause of his own survival; Saddam's own willingness to
> allow new inspections hasn't slowed Bush's zeal for an
> invasion.
>
> *** The White House lied in accusing Saddam of aiding
> Al Qaeda and supporting anti-U.S. terrorism. Bush has
> offered no credible evidence of meetings between Iraqi
> representatives and Al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden
> considers Saddam, a Muslim moderate running a secular
> government, an infidel to be deposed.
>
> *** Little discussion has taken place on possible
> outcomes of an invasion: numerous U.S. and civilian
> Iraqi casualties in the ground war; a retaliatory
> attack by Saddam on Israel that could escalate into an
> exchange involving weapons of mass destruction;
> motivation for thousands of Iraqis and other Arabs to
> join terrorist networks like Al Qaeda; destabilization
> of the region, from Palestine and Israel to Pakistan
> and India, and probable collapse of the Jordan
> government; likely installation of a post-Saddam
> regime headed by military thugs with bloody resumes
> comparable to Saddam.
>
> *** The Bush Administration refuses to admit
> responsibility by its own officials and by past U.S.
> administrations in aiding Saddam. Defense Secretary
> Donald Rumsfeld served as special envoy promising
> secret military assistance to Saddam in the Iran-Iraq
> War under Reagan, even though it was known that Saddam
> was using chemical weapons to wipe out entire
> populations. The Halliburton Company, under Cheney's
> reign as CEO, did $23.8 million worth of business with
> Iraq between 1998 and 2000, in violation of U.S. law.
>
> *** Bush's future cabinet drafted plans to invade Iraq
> even before Election Day 2000, according to a policy
> blueprint titled "Rebuilding America's Defences:
> Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century,"
> drafted in September 2000 by the think tank Project
> for the New American Century. The blueprint called
> for U.S. control over the Persian Gulf region to
> protect U.S. interests (i.e., oil), and also favored
> government takeover of the Internet, possible U.S. use
> of bio-warfare, and 'regime changes' in China, North
> Korea, Libya, Syria, and Iran. Among those involved
> in its draft were Cheney, Rumsfeld, and advisor Paul
> Wolfowitz. The call for U.S. global military
> supremacy by threat of pre-emptive strike was
> reaffirmed in Bush's 33-page national security policy
> paper submitted to Congress on Friday, September 20.
>
> *** The "Defense Planning Guidance" series of policy
> reviews from the Defense Departments of both Bush
> Administrations shows an evolving post-Cold-War
> doctrine of global 'full spectrum dominance' by the
> U.S. Drafted variously by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Paul
> Wolfowitz, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other
> ideologues, the documents outline an ideology based on
> the protection of global corporate interests, such as
> oil in the Persian Gulf.
>
> The Cheney-Rumsfeld ideology expressed in "Defense
> Planning Guidance" embraces global military
> superiority that gives the U.S. coercive power over
> friends and enemies alike; abandonment of treaties,
> arms control agreements, and international law (e.g.,
> the Antiballistic Missile Treaty; the International
> Criminal Court); unilateralism and disregard for
> coalitions and alliances; preemptive invasion of
> sovereign nations; national missile defense ('Star
> Wars'); and possible use of nuclear weapons.
>
> "We in the U.S. have our own dangerous extremists, and
> some are in the White House," said Annie Goeke,
> co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee
> and a member of the NGO Women's Caucus delegation on
> the International Criminal Court who was present when
> the court was signed into effect at the U.N. on
> September 10, 2002. "We shudder to think about what
> they'll do next, and what the backlash against
> Americans might be."
>
>
> MORE INFORMATION
>
> The Green Party of the United States
> http://www.greenpartyus.org
> National office: 1314 18th Street, NW
> Washington, DC 20036
> 202-296-7755, 866-41GREEN
>
> Green Party Statement in Opposition to U.S. Plans to
> Invade Iraq
> http://gpus.org/press/pr_09_20_02.html
>
> "The Case Against War"
> By Stephen Zunes, in The Nation, September 12, 2002
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020930&s=zunes
>
> "Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming
> President"
> The Sunday Herald (Scotland, UK), September 15, 2002
> http://www.sundayherald.com/27735
>
> "Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And
> Resources For A New Century"
> Project for the New American Century, September 2000
> http://www.newamericancentury.org/defensenationalsecurity.htm
>
> "Dick Cheney's Song of America: Drafting a plan for
> global dominance"
> By David Armstrong, in Harper's Magazine, October,
> 2002
>
> "The dishonest case for war on Iraq"
> (Counter-Dossier disputing Prime Minister Blair's
> Dossier on the threat of Iraqi Aggression)
> By Alan Simpson, MP, Chair of Labour Against the War,
> and Dr Glen Rangwala
> http://www.traprockpeace.org/counter-dossier.html
>
> "Unveiled: the thugs Bush wants in place of Saddam"
> The Sunday Herald, September 22, 2002
> http://www.sundayherald.com/27877
>
> Index of Green Party candidates in 2002
> http://www.greens.org/elections
>
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> Forwarded by the D.C. Statehood Green Party
> http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org
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