Peace Action Urges Calls to Clinton and Hussein to Prevent Bombing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 1998
Contact: Sheila Dormody,
Acting Organizing Director,
202.862.9740 ext. 3006
Washington DC-Today Peace Action called on President Clinton to end the
brutal sanctions against the people of Iraq and to prevent bombing attacks
which could incite retribution and escalate tensions in the Middle East.
The nation's largest grassroots peace organization also sent a message to
Saddam Hussein to allow the UN weapons inspections to continue.
"President Clinton has the opportunity to both resolve this crisis with
diplomacy and to end the brutal sanctions against Iraq which are killing
Iraqi children every day," said Gordon S. Clark, Peace Action's Executive
Director. "These sanctions are both devastating to the people of Iraq and
politically counter-productive. Over the past seven years these sanctions
have not brought Hussein to the negotiating table, but they have provided
justification for his prevention of weapons inspections."
The world community has a vested interest in preventing Hussein from
developing weapons of mass destruction and gaining his compliance with the
UN-brokered agreement reached at the end of the 1991 Gulf War which forbid
Iraq from producing any weapons of mass destruction. "Saddam Hussein should
faithfully abide by this agreement and allow weapons inspections to
continue," said Clark. "The world community needs to work vigorously
through the United Nations under Kofi Annan's leadership to develop a
diplomatic solution to the current crisis."
Peace Action is urging the American public to both flood the White House
Comment Line (202)456-1111 with calls opposing bomb strikes against Iraq
and to fax Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon at the Iraqi Mission to the
United Nations (212)772-1794 to tell Saddam Hussein to allow weapons
inspectors to proceed.
"Demonstrations in dozens of cities from coast to coast in February and the
audience reaction at the Ohio State International Town Hall Meeting made it
clear to the President and the Secretary of State that a US bombing
campaign would be met with a firestorm of protest across the United
States," said Clark. "Bombing is the tool of terrorists-not democracies.
The killing of Iraqi civilians will not bring the world closer to a
solution for this conflict. The American people are not going to tolerate a
bombing campaign that can be prevented."
Peace Action supports the abolition of all weapons of mass destruction,
including those covertly developed by Iraq and overtly by the United
States.
Peace Action is the nation's largest grassroots peace and disarmament
organization with 60,000 members across the nation.
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Mara Kaufman
Student Peace Action Network & Peace Action Education Fund
www.peace-action.org
pacampusnet@igc.org
202.862.9740x3051
202.862.9762 (fax)
1819 H St., NW, #425
Washington, DC 20006
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