Date: 7 Dec 2002 02:07:26 -0000
Subject: Ask Bush to Let the Inspections Work


Please join me in signing an online petition asking President Bush
to let the weapons inspections work, rather than rushing to war.

Inspections in Iraq have started.  Most of us breathed a sigh of
relief.  Unfortunately, it's become clear that the ultra-hawks in
the Bush administration -- Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle -- will not
take yes for an answer.  While the rest of the world thinks Iraq
has backed down, these men are beginning a massive public relations
blitz for war.

With the possibility of a peaceful resolution to this crisis at hand,
we cannot allow a few men to push the world to war.  Send a message
to President Bush to let the inspections work at:

   http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/

MoveOn.org will compile our messages and present them to the 
administration, including Secretary of State Powell, and to U.N. 
Secretary General Kofi Annan.

The good news is that the ultra-hawks face some serious opposition.
Secretary of State Colin Powell and other members of the Bush
Administration are willing to give diplomacy a chance, and the State
Department's interpretation of the U.N. resolution is a lot more
reasonable than the White House's interpretation.

Unless wiser heads prevail, this is what we should expect:
(1) starting December 8th, members of the Bush Administration will
claim that Iraq is in material breach of the U.N. resolution, citing
supposed omissions in the coming multi-hundred page report, based on
undisclosed intelligence; (2) soon thereafter some "hot" incident,
like anti-aircraft fire on U.S. patrols in the no-fly zone, will be
used to solidify public support for war, and finally (3) the bombing
campaign will begin.

This could all begin before Christmas -- another wonderful gift to
the world from the Bush administration.

President Bush has agreed that war should be the very last resort.
Let's hold him and his Administration to those words:

   http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/

Please join me and sign on today.  We must support policy makers who 
will oppose these few extremists in the Bush White House who have been 
looking for an excuse for war from the very beginning.


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