Free the Iraqi hostages! End the blockade!
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Four thousand civilians have died in Iraq because of the U.S. embargo. Half of them are children.
Dr Bernard Lown of the Harvard University School of Public Health and co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said: "We found that sanctions are working and working brutally, right now." He had just returned to the U.S. from a fact finding mission in Iraq.
Children are the hardest hit by medical shortages. Forty-three percent of Iraq's estimated 18 million people are under age 15. Baghdad hospitals lack insulin, intraveneous solution, and injectable forms of antibiotics and anesthetics. In Turkey, there are thousands of pounds of dried milk (desperately needed to save the lives of infants and for which Iraq has already paid) which cannot be delivered because of the imperialist embargo.
Meanwhile, George Bush walks around like a barnyard rooster, crowing that nothing less than all-out war with the people of Iraq will By pons, if necessary, in order to have a quick end to the war, and "save American lives."
Unfortunately, I fear, this is not the raving of a madman, but a coldly calculated decision that appears to have been made by a section of the leaders of world capitalism. The evidence strongly suggests that the Bush Administration is prepared to save their system even if it means taking the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation.
This is what's behind Bush's "new world order." He is telling the world that, if it were up to him, the American imperialist colossus would stop at nothing to maintain control over their empire. And when President Bush says that he will not stand for "aggression" he means, in the last analysis, by anyone else but American capitalism.
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ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE USE OF print AMERICAN THE would be $50 billion, with a cost in lives that could reach 45,000 American dead and wounded. Drawing on the Vietnam war experience, we reckon that the indirect cost to the U.S. economy of a Gulf war would be a further $190 billion."
The majority of humankind want peace and a sane world where workers can develop society's resources in the interest of human needs, not for the profits of a few. We must organize the most massive worldwide response to the threat to kill tens of thousands of American and Arab lives. ALL OUT-FROM NOW UNTIL JAN. 26! BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!