Dear Representative
Will Democrats in Congress have the courage to stop the White House from attacking Iran? A few days ago on August 28, the International Atomic Energy Agency released the results of their very thorough and intrusive inspection of the Iranian nuclear programs. The IAEA conclusions were plain and clear:
“The agency has been able to verify the nondiversion of the declared nuclear materials at the enrichment facilities in Iran and has therefore concluded that it remains in peaceful use.”
Yet on the very same day, the President’s speech to the American Legion struck the most ominous tone regarding Iran’s nuclear capabilities, saying:
“Iran’s active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.”
The same dire warnings, repeated ad nauseum by the major news outlets, are slowly engineering a public perception that war with Iran is unstoppable. The threatening image of a “nuclear holocaust” goes one step further in the art of deceit than the mantra about Saddam Hussein’s purported “nuclear mushroom cloud,” to insinuate the thought that a new World War to stop the Iranian bomb would be as necessary as the World War II fight to stop the Jewish Holocaust.
In the midst of the relentless war-making deceit, the silence of our elected Democratic Congress is disheartening. One year ago, we donated all the money we had, and did not have, to your re-election campaign. We spent countless hours sweating at phone banks and on the pavement to help get you re-elected to Congress.
One year later we stand distraught, numbed by the inability of our elected majority to stem the relentless push for more billions of wasted blood money, more sacrificed troops, more war-mongering and war-making, not only in Iraq, but now in neighboring Iran too.
We did not elect a Democratic Congress to sit silently, or worse even, to mindlessly echo the White House talking points on the “war on terror.” We elected you to stand up to the bullies, to shut down the wasteful war-making machines. Please make use of the war-stopping powers the people have given you, and do it now before it is too late.
Sincerely
Link to the IAEA memorandum
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/2007/infcirc711.pdf