We have been down this road before.
U.S. troops sent to war half a world away. American foreign
policy controlled by an arrogant elite, bent on projecting
military power around the globe. A public misled into
supporting an unconstitutional war founded on deceit and
fabrications.
As the death toll mounts, we hear claims that the war is
nearly won, that victory is just around the corner. But
victory never arrives.
As the public loses confidence in the government, the
government questions the patriotism of any who express doubt
about the war.
When a presidential election arrives, both the Democrat and
Republican nominees embrace the policy of continued war.
The military draft comes to dominate the lives of America's
young, and vast numbers who believe the war to be a
senseless blunder are faced with fighting a war they do not
believe in, or facing exile or prison.
The year was 1968. Because voters had no choice that
November, the Vietnam War continued for another six years.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans like you died, were
maimed, or suffered from diseases like malaria. A far
greater number of Vietnamese died.
Today, the war is in the quicksands and alleys of Iraq. Once
again, under the pressure of a determined resistance, we see
an American war policy being slowly torn apart at the seams,
while the candidates urge us to "stay the course" in this
tragic misadventure. Today's Presidential candidates are not
Nixon and Humphrey, they are now Bush and Kerry.
Once again, there is one overriding truth: If war is the
only choice in this election, then war we will have.
Today enlistments in the Reserves and National Guard are
declining. The Pentagon is quietly recruiting new members
to fill local draft boards, as the machinery for drafting
a new generation of young Americans is being quietly put
into place.
Young Americans need to know that a train is coming, and it
could run over their generation in the same way that the
Vietnam War devastated the lives of those who came of age in
the sixties.
I am running for President, and have been against this
war from the beginning. We must not waste lives in order
to control and waste more oil. Stand with us and we may
yet salvage your future and Americas' future from this
looming disaster.
Sincerely, Ralph Nader
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the legitimate rights of Palestinians."
Two members of the CPRR, Ishaq Farhan and Abdulateef Arabiyat, are members
of the Islamic Action Front (IAF)-an Islamist party affiliated with the
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Abdeen Jabara also works closely with another IFCO project called the
Coalition Against the "Counter Terror" Act. He distributes its flyers and
has appeared in a video for the group, which may be purchased for $15 a
copy - from IFCO.
Apparently someone is buying. According to a New York Post report, "the most
recent IRS records available for IFCO, from the year 2000, show that the
foundation took in $1,119,564 in contributions. A Not In Our Name statement
report that they have taken in more than $400,000 in recent months for the
purpose of publishing their statement."
NION and Narco-terrorism
As disturbing as NION's relationships with IFCO and Muslim organizations
are, just as disturbing is its relationship to the Revolutionary Communist
Party (RCP). Not In Our Name's administration cadre comes from the
Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), through such luminaries as C. Clark
Kissinger and Mary Lou Greenberg, both of whom are Directors of NION and
members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Clark Kissinger,
co-director of NION and the RCP, was quoted as saying that when the RCP took
over, "it would be necessary to shoot everyone who didn't agree with them."
The RCP is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist group that practices Lenin's "vanguard"
philosophy, which states that a vanguard of intellectuals is needed to lead
the proletariat in establishing a worker's utopia. It fosters the worldwide
revolution through its membership in the Revolutionary International
Movement (RIM). It is through this affiliation that the RCP is related to
two organizations listed by the State Department as terrorist organizations;
the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path/Sender Luminoso) and the Kurdish