Please consider reading and responding to the message below. Felicity
Callard
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> Subject: Ask Bush to Let the Inspections Work
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> Please join me in signing an online petition asking President Bush
> to let the weapons inspections work, rather than rushing to war.
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> Inspections in Iraq have started. Most of us breathed a sigh of
> relief. Unfortunately, it's become clear that the ultra-hawks in
> the Bush administration -- Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle -- will not
> take yes for an answer. While the rest of the world thinks Iraq
> has backed down, these men are beginning a massive public relations
> blitz for war.
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> With the possibility of a peaceful resolution to this crisis at hand,
> we cannot allow a few men to push the world to war. Send a message
> to President Bush to let the inspections work at:
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> http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/
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> MoveOn.org will compile our messages and present them to the
> administration, including Secretary of State Powell, and to U.N.
> Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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> The good news is that the ultra-hawks face some serious opposition.
> Secretary of State Colin Powell and other members of the Bush
> Administration are willing to give diplomacy a chance, and the State
> Department's interpretation of the U.N. resolution is a lot more
> reasonable than the White House's interpretation.
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> Unless wiser heads prevail, this is what we should expect:
> (1) starting December 8th, members of the Bush Administration will
> claim that Iraq is in material breach of the U.N. resolution, citing
> supposed omissions in the coming multi-hundred page report, based on
> undisclosed intelligence; (2) soon thereafter some "hot" incident,
> like anti-aircraft fire on U.S. patrols in the no-fly zone, will be
> used to solidify public support for war, and finally (3) the bombing
> campaign will begin.
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> This could all begin before Christmas -- another wonderful gift to
> the world from the Bush administration.
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> President Bush has agreed that war should be the very last resort.
> Let's hold him and his Administration to those words:
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> http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/
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> Please join me and sign on today. We must support policy makers who
> will oppose these few extremists in the Bush White House who have been
> looking for an excuse for war from the very beginning.
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