[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: McDermott and Iraq

[Lance Larkin]

Great work! Lets post it.

L.

--- jonathan lawson <jonathan at indymedia.org> wrote:
> 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>
> 
> [image from not in our name flyer]
> 
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