[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: McDermott and Iraq

[jonathan lawson]

subtitle: BUSH LIES CHALLENGED BY CONGRESSMAN, PUBLIC
title: McDermott Tours Iraq as Popular Resistance to War Builds

<p>Last weekend, U.S. and British warplanes bombed an Iraqi civilian 
airport in Basra for the second time in three days. During the attack, a US 
Congressional delegation including Washington Representative Jim McDermott 
was in the city as part of a <a 
href="http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2002-09/29/article39.shtml">controversial 
tour</a> of Iraq. There he reviewed the humanitarian devastation caused by 
ongoing US bombing long-term economic sanctions. "What worries me and my 
colleagues is that if we go to war again we would simply double or triple 
the problems we created in 1991," he said. McDermott has recently been one 
of Capitol Hill's <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18204">most vocal 
critics</a> of the Bush administration's war drive, highlighting the 
glaring inconsistencies in the official justifications for new attacks, and 
pointing out that presidents gearing up for war <a 
href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0930-02.htm">often lie</a> to 
the public. Commenting on McDermott's trip to Iraq, Senate Minority Leader 
Trent Lott told reporters:  "He needs to come home, and keep his mouth shut."

<p><a href="http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020930.html">
Democracy Now!</a> (6:30 weeknights on KBCS 91.3fm) has a <a 
href="http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020930.html">full story</a>.

<p>On <b>October 6 and 7</b>,  anti-war demonstrations will take place 
across the country. <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18284">In 
Seattle</a>, demonstrators will gather on Sunday the 6th at Volunteer Park 
at 1pm, then march to Westlake Plaza at 3pm.

<p><a href="www.notinourname-seattle.net ">Not In Our Name Seattle</a> | <a 
href="http://www.notinourname.net/events.html">resistance events nationwide</a>

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