SIGN THE STATEMENT OF
CONSCIENCE ON IRAN
8th Day Center is a cofounder of the No War On Iran Coalition. The
coalition has conducted several
forums and initiated a resolution with the Chicago City Council to
prevent that illegal and immoral
attack. It has also initiated a Statement of Conscience against such an
attack.
There are many reasons to believe the US will attack Iran before Bush
leaves office. For example, Dick
Cheney visited Saudi Arabia on Friday, March 22, 2008 for high-level
meetings with the Saudi king
and his ministers. The next day, one of the kingdom's leading
newspapers, Okaz, reported that the
Saudi Shura Council -- the elite group that implements the decisions of
the autocratic inner circle -- is
preparing "national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and
radioactive hazards that may affect the
kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's
Bushehr nuclear reactors."
The Saudi response is just the latest sign. Another indicator is the
recent resignation of Admiral William
Fallon, head of the US Central Command and responsible for the overall
military strategy in the Middle
East. Fallon is noted for saying an attack on Iran will not happen “on
my watch.” For further indicators
of this attack, see “6 Signs the U.S. May Be Headed for War in Iran”at
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2008/3/11/6-signs-the-us-may-be-headed-for-war-in-iran.html
ACTIONS
1. Sign the Statement of Conscience below. Send your name and how you
wish to be identified to Bob
Bossie at bob_bossie@claret.org
or call 312-641-5151 ext. 102.
2. Share this information with your family, friends, coworkers and your
faith community. Ask them to
sign the Statement of Conscience.
NO ATTACK ON IRAN: A
STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE
The Bush administration is moving toward an illegal and immoral attack
against Iran using the same
game of deception, lies and half truths that it used to gain support
for its illegal and immoral invasion
and occupation of Iraq.
This administration promotes totally unsubstantiated claims that Iran
is pursuing nuclear weapons. On
October 28, 2007, chief UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei said he
had no evidence Iran was
building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding fuel to the
fire” with recent bellicose
rhetoric.
This administration, and numerous members of the US Congress, play the
victim of of Iran’s alleged
aggression in Iraq which covers up US war crimes against Iraq and
prepares public opinion for a
defensive” attack against Iran.
On October 25, 2007, this administration imposed new unilateral
sanctions against Iran’ Revolutionary
Guard Corps charging it as a proliferator of weapons of mass
destruction, and it designated the
Guard’s Quds forces as a supporter of terrorism. These new sanctions
financially isolate part of Iran’s
military and anyone inside or outside Iran who does business with it.
This administration’s has surrounded Iran with military forces: in
Azerbaijan on the North, Afghanistan
on the East, Iraq on the West, and with two (soon to be three) aircraft
carrier battlegroups on the
South in the Persian Gulf.
The Bush administration has announced that all military options are on
the table to attack Iran, including
nuclear weapons.
This administration feigns diplomatic efforts in order to further lure
well intentioned persons into a state
of complicity.
The Israel lobby in Washington, DC falsely promotes Iran as enemy
number one.
Seventy million Iranians, 70% of whom are under 30 years of age,
struggle for freedom and democracy
on their own terms. Any attack by the US or another country would
derail their effort.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media beats the war drum incessantly as it
did in preparation for the
invasion of Iraq, an invasion which has cost the lives of over 1
million Iraqis, over 4,000 US forces and
over $1.3 Trillion desperately needed to compensate Iraq and for life
sustaining programs in the US.
The world holds its breath awaiting the unleashing of yet another crime
of cataclysmic proportions, a
crime which will raise oil prices disastrously and disrupt economies
worldwide, further destabilize the
Middle East, deepen the rift between Eastern and Western cultures, and
poison the air and destroy the
land of another ancient culture.
In conscience, we hold ourselves responsible for this crime about to be
committed in our name.
We will not remain silent. We will resist this machinery of aggression
and terror and rally others to do
everything possible to stop any attack against Iran.
We call upon all people of good will to join us in this commitment.
SIGNATORIES
(To see the full list of signers, visit http://www.nowaroniran-chicago.org/statement.htm
)
Judge R. Eugene Pincham
former judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and justice
of the Appellate Court of Illinois
Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton,
Zen Buddhist priest and Dharma teacher in the Suzuki Roshi lineage
Leadership Team of the Sisters of Providence of Saint
Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana: Paula Damiano,
SP; Marie McCarthy, SP; Jane Marie Osterholt, SP; Nancy Reynolds, SP;
Marsha Speth, SP; Denise
Wilkinson, SP
Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ
Mary Lou Ruck, SP
Marilyn Neuman, SP Associate
Beth Wright, SP
Adele Beacham, SP
Jackie Rivet-River, Film Maker
Louis P. River, III, M.D
The Leadership Team of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas of the
New York, Pennsylvania, Pacific
West Community: Nancy Hoff, RSM, Patricia Prinzing, RSM, JoAnne
Courneen, RSM, Guadalupe
Lumantas, RSM, Geraldine Rosinski, RSM
Kathleen Desautels, SP
Rev. Gregory Dell, retired, United Methodist Clergy
Helen Gourlay, BVM
Gail T. Smith, Attorney at Law
Rose Mary Meyer, BVM
Kathy Thoma & Steve Casillas
Sr. Dorothy Pagosa, SSJ-TOSF
Br. Michael Gosch, CSV
Leadership Team of the Sisters of Charity, BVM Dubuque, Iowa -
Joellen McCarthy,
BVM,
Peggy Nolan, BVM, Mary Ann Zollmann, BVM
Rosalie Riegle, Evanston IL
Renny Golden, Professor Emerita Northeastern Illinois University
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