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The following resolution was passed at the Local 19 Pensioners
Club at it’s regular meeting December 2, 2002.
RESOLUTION AGAINST WAR ON IRAQ
The Bush administration's call for war against Iraq has raised
serious opposition from sources left, right and middle. We therefore propose the
adoption of the following resolution:
Whereas: Iraq has in no way in the past or present
threatened war against our country, and
Whereas: To militarily attack a country that has not
threatened or invaded our country is a violation of civilized laws and treaties
in existence for decades as well as United Nations treaties binding on the US,
and,
Whereas: The Bush administration has not offered
convincing evidence that Iraq is in possession of any weapons of mass
destruction that could possibility threaten our country or seriously threaten
others, and
Whereas: To launch a preemptive war against Iraq would
entangle us in a Middle East area of untold political, military and social
upheaval in that area that likely would require tens of years of military action
to stabilize at tremendous financial cost that would seriously threaten our
national financial structure, and,
Whereas: Many informed observers have pointed out that
the war against Iraq is not a war to oust Saddam Hussein but rather to gain
control of the vast oil fields for Big Oil in the Middle East, and
Whereas: It would be a humanitarian crime of monstrous
proportions to sacrifice American troops and thousands of civilians in a war for
the control of oil in the Middle East solely for profits of Big Oil,
Therefore: We, the members of the Seattle ILWU
Pensioners Club go on record calling upon the Bush Administration to seek
diplomatic rather than military solutions to the Iraq problem as well as others
in the Middle East.
The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
Things fall apart;
The center cannot hold;
Mirror anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
Everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the
Worst
Are full off passionate intensity.
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