The Bush Administration Avoids Peace (Again)

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The Bush Administration responded by instructing the State Department to ignore the proposal, and a message was sent to the Swiss Ambassador, chastising him for relaying the message from the Iranian government.

...in October 2003, the Europeans got Iran to agree to suspend enrichment in order to pursue talks that might lead to an economic, nuclear and strategic deal. But the Bush administration refused to join the European initiative, ensuring that the talks failed." -- The New York Times, 1/24/06

In May 2006, Iranian President Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Bush, expressing Iran's concerns and attempting to open a dialogue aimed at resolving the problems between the two countries. President Bush dismissed the letter because it "didn't offer enough compromises" and refused to reply--thus confirming that America was not interested in Iranian concerns--or in avoiding war.

...and that is the bottom line. The Bush Administration is not interested in peace with Iran--any more than they wanted peace with Iraq. The neoconservative masterminds in the Bush Administration have marked Iran for regime change, and the plan is moving forward.

"In recent weeks the threat of war in Iran has qualitatively escalated. Provocative U.S. attacks on Iranian diplomatic offices, arrests of Iranian officials inside Iraq, and the installation of a second U.S. aircraft carrier group in the Persian Gulf seem all but openly designed to goad Tehran to respond. Repeated Bush administration threats about "dealing with" alleged Iranian involvement in attacks on U.S. soldiers resonate back to equally unproven claims about Iraq's WMDs. Both have been calculated to ratchet up public and media support for a U.S. attack-on Iraq then, and on Iran now-and to undercut any potential congressional move to stop a new attack." -- Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, TomPaine.com, 2/7/07

Members of Congress do not seem to appreciate the urgency of this situation. If they did, they would not waste time playing partisan politics, passing nonbinding resolutions, and debating about what they should debate. The Bush Administration is deliberately starting a war with Iran, and Congress needs to stop it NOW! Once bombs start falling, it will be too late.

Congress must repeal the "authorization to use force" given to President Bush after the attacks of 9/11/01. Mr. Bush has used that authorization to justify everything from torture to illegal spying; and now he is using it to start a war with Iran.

Call your Senators and Representative today, and demand that they revoke President Bush's authority to use force--anywhere, anytime. Mr. Bush has proven that he cannot be trusted with this kind of power, and it is up to Congress to stop him from starting another war.

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Mick Youther is an American citizen, an independent voter, a veteran, a parent, a Christian, a scientist, a writer, and all-around nice guy who has been aroused from a comfortable apathy by the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush Administration.

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