[MAPC-policy] FW: anti-war letter to Rep.I want you to ripoff

[MAPC-policy] FW: anti-war letter to Rep.I want you to ripoff

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East Timor Action Network field organizer   ETAN field office
Social Justice Center
office 608-663-5431                         1202 Williamson St
cell 608-347-4598                           Madison, WI 53703
home 608-255-4598                           fax 608-227-0141

Check out these internet sites!
the East Timor Action Network/US http://www.etan.org
Madison, WI - East Timor projects http://www.aideasttimor.org
Madison's Social Justice Center http://www.socialjusticecenter.org

"We struggled for more than 24 years for independence. We've learned the
lesson that even small people have a voice."
    -East Timorese leader Mari Alkatiri, during the August 30, 2001
Constituent Assembly vote

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From: x <x>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:54:46 -0700
To: "x (x)" <xx" <x>, x <x>, "x" <x>, x <x>
Cc: x <x>
Subject: anti-war letter to Rep.I want you to ripoff

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi                             October 18, 2001
2457 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC   20515


Dear Congresswoman Pelosi,

As a San Francisco resident who is committed to working for peace, I am
writing to express my grave concern over the Bush Administration1s ongoing
war in Afghanistan.

I appreciate your long record of advocacy on behalf of populations suffering
under military repression world-wide, and with that history in  mind I call
on you to oppose the Bush Administration s disastrous air war.  I regret
that you did not choose to vote with Barbara Lee in opposition to the
resolution granting President Bush unilateral power to wage war on those he
suspected of complicity in the horrific September 11 attacks.  As do many
friends and colleagues I have talked with this week, I support a longer
term, less homicidal  effort to apprehend those accused of helping support
the attacks on New York and Washington (who should be tried in a tribunal in
the Hague or elsewhere) .

It is clear to me, and to a growing number of people in San Francisco, that
bombing is not the answer.

Jean Ziegler, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food,
sees the U.S. food drop as "totally catastrophic for humanitarian aid"
because it links such aid with military operations, and warns that the
indiscriminate "snowdropping" of food could lead hungry children into mine
fields. This week Ziegler argued on KPFA radio that "only stopping the
bombing will allow aid to reach the starving," and cited UN figures showing
that more than seven million Afghans rely on international humanitarian aid,
and are therefore at grave risk if bombing continues.  With Afghanistan1s
famously severe winter approaching in November, the future of these
civilians deserves to be given much greater priority.

This week retired Army Col. Bob Rheault, a former Green Beret, told the San
Francisco Chronicle that "you don't solve the problem by going out and
killing their innocent civilians... the one thing we must not do is to
further inflame the Muslim world."

It seems clear that bombing civilians will only provide further fuel for the
kinds of homicidal rage that killed more than 5,000 innocents in New York on
September 11. Such slaughter of civilians is also morally wrong, no matter
how many times President Bush assures us that they were killed by a "fight
against evil."

Thank you for your attention on this crucial matter.  Please resist the
fear-mongering that the Bush White House is using to advance an agenda
antithetical to global peace; instead, stand up for a sane alternatives to
widening this war.

Sincerely,

Friday, October 19, 2001 11:05 AM

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