|
Dear
Al,
Action:
Call the White House at 202.456.1111 before 5:00 eastern time today. The
message: “Yes to humanitarian aid, but no bombing, no new Iraq war!”
Just
two weeks ago, you helped us send a strong message to policy-makers in
Washington when the House of Representatives passed H. Con. Res. 105 stating clearly there is no legal authority
for U.S. military involvement in Iraq without express Congressional approval.
While a similar measure has not yet passed the Senate, this message from the
American people couldn’t be more clear – NO NEW WAR IN IRAQ!
Unfortunately,
the spreading, hideously violent civil war in Iraq (flowing from the civil war
in Syria, which U.S. weapons and support for opposition forces helped fuel) has
President Obama considering military strikes, along with air drops of food,
water and medicine to beleaguered Yazidi and other persecuted minorities
stranded on a mountain top in northern Iraq, besieged by the fighters of the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Certainly
this rapidly evolving humanitarian crisis – people are dying for lack of food
and water -- deserves U.S. and international action to deliver badly needed
life-saving supplies to civilians fleeing the rampaging ISIS forces. But this
gut-wrenching situation must not be used to justify U.S. escalation of the war,
entailing certain if unknown disastrous unintended consequences, as we’ve seen
before in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
Please
take action in support of humanitarian relief for people who desperately need
it, but against escalating the killing. Call the White House today at
202.456.1111 before 5:00 pm eastern time.
Humbly
for Peace,
Kevin
Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action
|
No comments:
Post a Comment