[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: McDermott and Iraq

[Jason Reep]

agree

Lance Larkin wrote:

>Great work! Lets post it.
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>L.
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>--- jonathan lawson <jonathan at indymedia.org> wrote:
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>>subtitle: BUSH LIES CHALLENGED BY CONGRESSMAN,
>>PUBLIC
>>title: McDermott Tours Iraq as Popular Resistance to
>>War Builds
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>><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 
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>href="http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2002-09/29/article39.shtml">controversial
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>>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 
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>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18204">most
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>>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 
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>href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0930-02.htm">often
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>>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."
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>><p><a
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>href="http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020930.html">
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>>Democracy Now!</a> (6:30 weeknights on KBCS 91.3fm)
>>has a <a 
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>href="http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020930.html">full
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>>story</a>.
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>><p>On <b>October 6 and 7</b>,  anti-war
>>demonstrations will take place 
>>across the country. <a 
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>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18284">In
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>>Seattle</a>, demonstrators will gather on Sunday the
>>6th at Volunteer Park 
>>at 1pm, then march to Westlake Plaza at 3pm.
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>><p><a href="www.notinourname-seattle.net ">Not In
>>Our Name Seattle</a> | <a 
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>href="http://www.notinourname.net/events.html">resistance
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>>events nationwide</a>
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>>[image from not in our name flyer]
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