Expose Bush's Fraud - Take Action Now!

[Stop War on Iran]

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SAY NO! TO BUSH'S FRAUDULENT IRAN WAR-MONGERING PROVOCATION!
Your Emergency Action is Needed Now! *

*Don't Let Washington Provoke Another War Based on Lies and Fraud! *

In the past week, the Bush Administration has been caught red-handed 
manufacturing the highly publicized "provocation" off the Iranian coast 
on Jan. 6 when five small Iranian open-air speedboats allegedly 
challenged three massive U. S. guided-missile warships. *The U.S. Navy 
has now admitted that it had spliced together the audio and video tape 
it presented as evidence* and that the threatening voice on the video 
warning "you may explode" may not have belonged to any Iranian sailors.

This incident was manufactured just days before President Bush departed 
for an eight-day trip to the Middle East, attempting to mobilize a 
collection of oil-rich U.S. client states against Iran and using the 
video as the evidence.

We must demand a People's Inquiry to find out who manufactured this 
video? Who spliced
*Help build a movement to STOP another war based on lies.*

In the next few days and weeks, *Stop War on Iran* will be organizing 
meetings, speakouts, and a massive grassroots campaign to expose and 
stop the Bush Administration's drive to war.

Stop War on Iran was the first international campaign formed to oppose 
Washington's agenda of war against Iran, and we have generated more than 
half a million petitions in the past two years.  We have been a presence 
at every major antiwar demonstration and have organized meetings across 
the U.S.

*But it is clear that we must do more, and we need your help to do 
that. * Please consider making an emergency donation.  You can donate 
online at http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml

together completely different sound and video footage? Who signed off on 
it? Who distributed it to all the major media? 

*We must hold the administration accountable*, because we know that this 
is not the first time that a manufactured U.S. crisis has launched a war.

On Feb. 5, 2003, the Bush administration presented satellite photos to 
the United Nations to prove that Iraq was developing weapons of mass 
destruction. This followed Bush's assertion that Iraq was attempting to 
purchase yellow cake uranium from Niger, a statement that he knew was 
untrue.  The Downing Street memos have revealed that the Bush 
administration was engaged in a deliberate attempt to falsify 
intelligence in order to justify a war they had been planning for years.

Before the first Gulf War in 1991 the photo images of Iraqi units 
supposedly massed to invade on the Saudi Arabia border also turned out 
to be totally fraudulent.  

Manufactured evidence was also used in the famous "Gulf of Tonkin 
Incident," when North Vietnamese Coast Guard boats supposedly attacked 
two U.S. destroyers off the coast of Vietnam in August 1964. This fraud 
provided the justification for a Congressional resolution authorizing 
the escalation of the U.S. war against Vietnam.

This latest fabrication comes after a National Intelligence Estimate 
from 16 top U.S. spy agencies publicly reported that Iran has not had 
nuclear weapons program since at least 2003, nor do they have any 
nuclear weapons. 

*We must demand a People's Inquiry *

What is most ominous about this is that no major U.S. politician -- *no 
one in Congressional leadership, none of the leading Presidential 
candidates* -- has denounced it, nor have they called for an inquiry or 
investigation. Neither the U.S. Congress - now in session - nor any of 
its committees, all of them now controlled by the Democratic majority 
elected on an anti-war vote, took action, even when it become clear that 
the entire incident was fabricated.
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With almost half the U.S. Navy hovering off the coast of Iran, this war 
provocation must be challenged and confronted.*  The largest and 
deadliest ships in world history armed and in attack mode, with targets 
selected, are now off the coast of Iran. We must take action now to stop 
an attack on Iran, and demand that the Bush administration be held 
accountable for its campaign of lies, provocation, and hostility. 

We must demand a full investigation of this war provocation and the 
illegal war games that the U.S. Navy has been staging in the Persian 
Gulf, in order to prevent Bush and the Pentagon from using this scenario 
or another staged operation to launch an attack on Iran.

The Stop War On Iran Campaign also urges rank-and-file Navy personnel on 
U.S. ships in the Gulf and lower ranking officers to reveal what they 
know of U.S. war preparations, war games in the region, and the attempts 
to create a provocation in the Gulf in order to justify Washington's 
plans to attack Iran.

We must take action now to expose the lies of the Bush administration 
before it moves forward with devastating military action.  Please sign 
the statement at  http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml -- which will 
go to the White House, Congress, and the major media, to demand an 
inquiry into this latest incident and into the Bush administration's 
drive to war.

*Sign the Statement <http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml> | Donate 
<http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml> | Volunteer 
<http://stopwaroniran.org/contact.shtml> | Tell a Friend 
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