S
Simon Bishop
Guest
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
HTTP://WWW.VOTENADER.ORG
--
intensified
their program of violence, 408 people were killed - nearly an elevenfold
increase in the number of deaths over the previous year. Ever since, the
death toll has been on the rise. By late 2000 the death toll has risen to
over 2,100. As of August 2002, nearly 5,000 lives have been lost to the
insurgency "
Shining Path sent congratulations to RIM for its first anniversary in May of
1985. The Central Committee wrote, "...the people's war in our country
continues to blaze defiantly, expanding, spreading its roots and preparing
for newer and higher tasks, guided always by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
battling for the emancipation of our people for the purpose of and at the
service of the world revolution. Thus we are contributing and will
contribute to the tasks of the RIM, more and more willing and able to aid in
every possible way our glorious common cause: the emancipation of the
proletariat and communism prevailing though out the earth.
"Comrades, the Communist Party of Peru is part of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement and feels honored to be so, honored to serve in
such a far-reaching and historic vanguard battle, as well as to have th
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
HTTP://WWW.VOTENADER.ORG
--
intensified
their program of violence, 408 people were killed - nearly an elevenfold
increase in the number of deaths over the previous year. Ever since, the
death toll has been on the rise. By late 2000 the death toll has risen to
over 2,100. As of August 2002, nearly 5,000 lives have been lost to the
insurgency "
Shining Path sent congratulations to RIM for its first anniversary in May of
1985. The Central Committee wrote, "...the people's war in our country
continues to blaze defiantly, expanding, spreading its roots and preparing
for newer and higher tasks, guided always by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
battling for the emancipation of our people for the purpose of and at the
service of the world revolution. Thus we are contributing and will
contribute to the tasks of the RIM, more and more willing and able to aid in
every possible way our glorious common cause: the emancipation of the
proletariat and communism prevailing though out the earth.
"Comrades, the Communist Party of Peru is part of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement and feels honored to be so, honored to serve in
such a far-reaching and historic vanguard battle, as well as to have th