[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: McDermott and Iraq

[Susan]

excellent!  thumbs up .... please add in the SCAN schedule for Democracy 
Now! -- sg

At 11:22 AM 10/2/02, jonathan lawson 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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