Stay Informed Spread Truth Act Daily Fact & Act #01 20 September 2002 LMNOP Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace http://lmno4p.org ANALYSIS One year ago, many political analysts predicted the US would be at war by fall 2002. If November elections could swing the Senate to a Republican majority, the President essentially would be given carte blanche on most bills presented to Congress; most significantly bills to: 1). Drill for oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), 2). Reworking of credit law significantly favoring credit companies (15 years vetoed), 3). Soft prosecution of corporate, white collar crimes, including accountability contemptible CEO policies and punishment of fraudulent accounting practices. None of which would pass with a Democrat majority. URGENT ACTION Level: CRITICAL TO TODAY CALL your Congressional Representatives. Congress is debating the issue of war TODAY. Let them know their consituents agree with the international community: NO WAR WITH IRAQ. Some Democrats and Republicans don't want to risk the loss of votes in November's election by seeming unpartriotic or by being berated in corporate media. Let them know the strength of the will of the people. http://congress.org Click the "info" link under rep's photo for phone numbers. You might also want to mention you are more concerned with the economy which has taken a nosedivewith a 230 point loss on Thursday, reflecting the markets' dissatisfaction with Bush's domestic economic and foreign relations policies. FACT In 1991, lies were told to Congress and the American people hours before a bill for war on Iraq was enacted. 1. No babies were ever thrown out of incubators as reported to Congress by a "witness" who was hired by a PR firm to lie. "When contemplating war, beware of babies in incubators" http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html 2. "Build-up" of Iraqi troops on the Saudi border were fabricated by a Pentagon satellite picture that was "photoshopped." There were no troops on the Saudi border. In War, Some Facts Less Factual By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitorarchive.com/csmonitor/articlelander.jhtml?articleUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwit_article.pl%3F2002%2F0906%2Fp01s02-wosc.html&articleDate=2002-09-06&title=In+war%2C+some+facts+less+factual&_DARGS=%2Fcsmonitor%2Fdisplay.jhtml.2_A&_DAV= "When George H. W. Bush ordered American forces to the Persian Gulf to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait part of the administration case was that an Iraqi juggernaut was also threatening to roll into Saudi Arabia. Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated in mid September that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on the border, threatening the key US oil supplier. But when the St. Petersburg Times in Florida acquired two commercial Soviet satellite images of the same area, taken at the same time, no Iraqi troops were visible near the Saudi border just empty desert... "That [Iraqi buildup] was the whole justification for Bush sending troops in there, and it just didn't exist," Ms. Heller says. Three times Heller contacted the office of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (now vice president) for evidence refuting the Times photos or analysis offering to hold the story if proven wrong. The official response: "Trust us." To this day, the Pentagon's photographs of the Iraqi troop buildup remain classified." SOURCES Robert Novak: Oil, Iraq and the airlines http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/05/column.novak/index.html America's War Record is Littered with Lies http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/11/1031608270446.html America's Case for War is Built on Blindness, Hypocrisy and Lies http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=333275 The Propaganda War: Common Myths Held by the American Public http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=677&mode=thread&order=0 To Tell the Truth http://www.csmonitorarchive.com/csmonitor/articlelander.jhtml?articleUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwit_article.pl%3F2002%2F0906%2Fp06s02-wogn.html&articleDate=2002-09-06&title=Reporters+on+the+Job&_DARGS=%2Fcsmonitor%2Fdisplay.jhtml.2_A&_DAV= +=+=+=+=+ Wm Leslie Howard LMNOP http://lmno4p.org archives of Daily Fact & Acts: http://lmno4p.org/fa/