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A Country at Peace with Being at War is a Country of "Good Germans"
The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime July 2008
A country “at peace with being at war” is a country of “Good Germans.”
Seven years of the Bush Regime have radically altered the shape of U.S. society and locked in a global trajectory of wars for empire with no regard for human cost or conscience.
The world is shocked by the crimes and destruction the American people have allowed to be carried out in our names.
Despite the longest presidential campaign ever, George Bush remains unrelenting and self-assured that he can drive the savageness of his agenda into the next administration. Still commander in chief, Bush is recklessly threatening military action against Iran that could break out even before the next president is sworn in.
Who is to stop him when both presidential candidates have also threatened Iran, each insisting that all options, including nuclear weapons, remain on the table?
Who is to stop him when the Democrat-controlled Congress secretly approved funding for covert special operations already underway inside Iran?
Who will stop any of this when both major parties are championing the so-called war on terror, under which the U.S. launched two wars in a region that is strategically located, rich in oil, and long a central concern of imperial powers? Both major political parties have authorized these wars. And at every step, both political parties have voted to extend billions more dollars to continue them.
Only you – not your government – can bring any of this to a halt. The only realistic course is for the people of the U.S. to taking meaningful and independent political action to resist the machinery of war and the fascist direction that has emerged since September 10, 2001.
We believe that people of conscience must take responsibility for what their own governments do. People of conscience do not allow themselves to be demobilized by the political and moral terms of an election that calls for national unity while carrying out unjust war for empire. We should take this administration at their word when they promise a war to last generations.
People of conscience act when torture has been legalized and when war crimes are being carried out in our names.
People of conscience do not give up our right to dissent or hand over our consciences in return for a hollow promise of safety.
While Barack Obama and John McCain, each in their own way, distance themselves from the debacle of the Bush years, neither of them, and no significant force within the halls of power, is acting decisively to reverse the re-making of American legal norms and political culture that can rightly be described as fascistic.
Neither of them is demanding that the U.S.’s policy of torture – sanctioned and codified in the Military Commissions Act which passed with bi-partisan support – be repealed and those responsible prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Neither candidate is calling for ending the mass round-ups of immigrants or the Halliburton contracts for new prisons to hold targeted immigrant populations and political dissidents.
Neither of them gave voice to the public outrage against Bush’s illegal wiretapping; instead, Obama voted with the majority to grant retroactive immunity to those who joined Bush in breaking the law and violating basic rights to privacy and freedom of press. Further, Barack Obama has pledged to extend Bush’s faith-based initiatives. and promotes a nefarious message of finding common ground with Christian Fundamentalists who rail against evolution, celebrate intolerance and openly advocate the submission of women.
This is not the pendulum “swinging back.” This is a continuation of the politics of empire. Never before has a sole super-power held so much of the world in such peril and never before have the crimes of one empire threatened the future of so much of the planet.
The words from the original World Can’t Wait Call to Drive out the Bush Regime ring even truer today: “That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn – or be forced – to accept.”
What is needed is not a minor course correction. What is needed is not meaningless “change” we are allowed to believe in, but a radical change in direction brought about by people acting outside the political confines of these official politics.
Real change can come only from people in their millions taking responsibility to change the course of history. It will not be as easy as writing your congressman or putting your energies and resources into a supposed savior from the Democratic Party. But that. Let’s face it, is an illusion.
What will things look like the day after the election? Will people – through their passivity and through having restricted themselves to mobilizing behind one or the other major candidate – have legitimized the results of an election that is taking place on terms inhospitable to the future of the planet? Will the millions who want so badly a different future have forfeited this righteous demand on the altar of “national unity” and an empty promise of “hope”?
Or will there be a pole of opposition that inspires with its moral clarity and fearless truth-telling? An increasingly visible independent political force of resistance, protest, and acts of conscience that people can join with and persevere with until this whole direction is brought to a halt?
Let it be said: It was wrong to go into Iraq. It has been wrong to stay in Iraq. It is wrong not to get out now. It is wrong to escalate the war in Afghanistan and to threaten war with Iran.
LET IT BE SAID in DENVER so that, on August 24, the eve of the Democratic Convention, there is the largest anti war demonstration that city has seen. Come to Denver for a week of protest that includes marching to stand with immigrants under assault and counter-protests to the week of anti-abortion actions of the Christian Right.
For this to happen, WE must act and mobilize now.
We believe that people of conscience must take responsibility for what their own governments do. Thus we call on all people living in the United States to RESIST the trajectory of wars and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration and a complicit Congress.
We choose to make common cause with the people of the world by extending a hand to those suffering from these policies and by showing our solidarity in word and deed.
The World Can’t Wait! July 2008
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