---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:34:34 -0800 From: Nancy <rednurse@ricochet.net> Subject: Veterans Speak Out Against the Iraq Sanctions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-CONTACT MARTY KUNZ @ (206) 374-2215, vvawai@oz.net Veterans Speak Out Against the Iraq Sanctions 10 years of War-Blood for Oil-USS New World Order-When will it End? Several Nationally Renown Anti-War Veterans Available for Interviews-1/16/01 Every month in Iraq 5000 children die from the U.S./UN sanctions. They die from easily solved ills such as malnutrition, lack of medicine and contaminated water. As several countries including Russia, France, Syria, Switzerland, Italy, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and China criticize and some begin to openly defy these illegal sanctions, the U.S. is threatening to tighten the noose. Even before inauguration Bush and Powell promised swift and decisive action in the Gulf pledging "the new administration will work to 're-energize' the sanctions imposed against Iraq a decade ago and will not succumb to growing pressure from allies to lift the embargo^" We are here to shed light on the war crimes committed with the aim of halting future crimes against the people of Iraq. *Ellen E. Barfield, (410) 243-5876 U.S. Army 1977-81, Veterans for Peace & Voices in the Wilderness. Has been on 3 delegations to Iraq. Anton Black, (770) 281-3119 message phone, atlvvawai@hotmail.com U.S. Navy 1977-84 *Fredy Champagne, (707) 923-3658, fchampagne@humboldt.net U.S. Army Vietnam '65-'66, A Co/2nd Br/2nd Rgt/1st Inf Div., Vets for Peace, Chapter 022, VVAW AI, Co-Chair, VFP Iraq Water Project. Just back from Iraq. Frank Dorrel, (310) 838-8131, fdorrel@hotmail.com Veterans for Peace, Save the Iraqi Children Coalition. *John Hoff, hoffmanj@infi.net Gulf War Era vet, U.S. Army Medical Regiment, WBAMC, Ft. Bliss TX, 1990-1994, 91-F. *Marty Kunz, (206) 374-2215, vvawai@oz.net U.S. Navy 1970-76, VVAW AI-HQ *Stan Nishimura, (203) 498-8185 U.S. Army 1964-67 Germany, VVAW AI New Haven, CT *Jeff Paterson, (877) 242-0146 1st Gulf War GI resister *Barry Riesch (651) 641-1087, BRiesch@ci.minnetonka.mn.us U.S. Army, Vietnam 1969-70, 199th Lt. Infantry, 82nd Airborne, Veterans for Peace. Recently back from a trip to Iraq working to fix destroyed clean water sources. (VFP- Iraq Water Project) *Steve M. Slaby, (609) 924-4727, STEVEM.SLABY@AOL.COM U.S. Army Airforce 1944-45, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University *Sonny Williams, (513) 241-8014, chu-lai@juno.com Vietnam 1967-68, Germany 1969-70, VVAW AI *Howard Zinn, (203) 498-8185, hzinn@bu.edu 8th Air Force, Bombadier, WWII. Writer of "People's History of the United States." * These are a few of the hundreds of veterans who have signed a call to end the Iraq sanctions. http://www.oz.net/~vvawai/sanctions/vets-call.html As veterans of U.S. military interventions, wars and occupations, we have something to say about war. What we have learned, we have learned the hard way, as instruments of war. Our shared experiences cause us to hold strong opinions about war - from avowed pacifism, to "only for self-defense," to nationalism, even to the need for revolutionary change. It also unites us under the common pledge of "Never Again!" * We denounce sanctions against the people of Iraq as immoral and illegitimate. We call for an immediate end to the ongoing sanctions war against the people of Iraq. * We vow our support for all those threatened or prosecuted for violating the sanctions and opposing intervention. * We will oppose all US interventions, overt or covert, in the sovereign affairs of other nations. END Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist http://www.oz.net/~vvawai vvawai@oz.net PO Box 21604 Seattle, WA 98111-3604 ph/fax: 206.374.2215
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