YES WE CAN STOP THIS NEW WAR DRIVE

Sept 16, 2014

Friends –

The U.S. Administration has proposed to dramatically increase funding of mercenary “moderate rebels” fighting in Syria and to escalate air attacks in Iraq and extending into Syria. The pretext is to combat ISIS but we believe the real goal is to re-establish U.S. dominance in the region and continue the push toward violent and foreign engineered regime change in Damascus.  The Administration is trying to rush consideration of this plan, pushing for Congressional approval in the coming days.

NOW is the time to speak out against this plan.

We hope you agree and will actively join us in calling your congressional representatives to let them know what you think. We also need to speak out against mainstream media distortions and bias.

For people in the USA, the following site provides U.S. politician contact information quickly and easily.

http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/

Here are some suggested talking points for discussion with politicians and the media:

* U.S. intervention has been a disaster in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.  U.S. military intervention makes things worse not better.

* U.S. military intervention does not defeat terrorists; it creates terrorists.     Al-Qaeda came from the U.S.- Saudi intervention in Afghanistan and ISIS came from U.S. interventions in Iraq and Syria.

* We cannot afford it.  Cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is estimated at over two TRILLION DOLLARS!

* We can defeat ISIS by shutting off the supply of money, weapons and foreign fighters which are all coming from U.S. ALLIES!  Demand that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey stop facilitating ISIS.

YES WE CAN STOP THIS NEW WAR DRIVE.

Syria Solidarity Movement