Samir Adil President of Iraq Freedom Congress said "We took this

path not because we do not know how to use a weapon, or afraid of

the US troops or even follow what Jesus said “If someone strikes

you on the right cheek, turn to him the other one also”.  We have

not chosen the armed resistance although we recognize it as one

of the means of struggle; however we consider it inappropriate

tactic at the present time and we expressed our position and views

in our statements and interviews. We preferred civil resistance

because it is more effective with the least possible damage."

VoteStrike agrees the Iraqi people have extremely suffered from

wars especially the last three years in which the armed groups and

under the pretext of fighting the occupation have committed

every vicious act to push their agenda. They attacked the

energy sources, water and sewage systems, and turned the

people’s neighborhoods and workplaces into battlefields.  It is

obvious that these acts are the actual reason for the resistance

not to exceed more than four provinces despite the huge

resentment among the people.

Mr. Adil went on to say "Staging a general strike in the oil sector,

for instance, will have more impact on the US administration than 

any armed uprising. Also we adopted the civil resistance because

IFC’s policy is not anti-America, but against the inhumane policy

of the US administration. Thus IFC, for example, cannot turn its back

on thousands of American mothers who have their sons and

daughters serving in Iraq. The Iraqi mother suffers and feels pain

when losing her kid because of the occupation or armed militia

crimes; likewise the American mother agonizes and undergoes the

loss of her kid in the war in Iraq. The human suffering is the

same everywhere in our world. Our strength and support comes from

this movement around the world and we are not giving up this

policy and strategy at any cost."

On September 24th anti war and occupation demonstrations 

were held across Iraq, the US administration in Baghdad was

frightened, and attempted to provoke the demonstrators by

deploying troops and surrounding the event and began acting in a way

to scare the people and end the event as soon as they could.  In

Basra also on the same day, the Islamist forces were horrified of the

anti war demonstration and staged a parallel demonstration to draw

the attention away from the anti war demonstration however they

failed miserably. In addition the student uprising led by the

Students Union that is a member organization of IFC against

Al-Sadir militia in Basra. This event forced the local government to

close down the offices of Al-Sadir in Basra and made them apologize

for their violations of human rights formerly in the newspaper

and respond to the student demands. 

Ending this war and occupation will require more than just demonstrat-

ions and rallys. The military industrial complex, the banks and

politicians who profit from prolonged wars will drag this on for 100 years

regardless which political party you put in power this November.

Only you can stop the funding for this war/occupation.

Go to: http://www.votestrike.com/non-compliance for simple non-

violent resistance steps to stop fueling the money changers

and corporate controllers of our great country.