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Dear listmembers, Some of you will have been sent this directly already. The following is the text of a letter to be sent to the press in the next day or so. If you support it, please reply to Jack Vernon (jv205@hermes.cam.ac.uk), putting your name and College (or whatever) at the end of the letter. This applies to mere students too, not just "respected academics"! Thanks. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "J. Vernon" <jv205@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Letter to press - Iraq (fwd) This is the letter which we are planning to send to the press on Sunday, if possible. It is deliberately short and does not dwell on 'facts' about the Gulf situation. If you agree with the letter, please add your name and college and return it to me. JV "We deplore the proposed military action by Britain against Iraq, which seems to be drawing on with obscene inevitability. Any attack will bring misery and death to the Iraqi people, who are already denied many necessities, including food and medicines, as a result of British-backed sanctions. The West should avoid fomenting conflict in a region which is already unstable. Attacking Iraq will lend support to Saddam Hussein's domestic propaganda and increase strains on Arab relations with the West. Britain has no right to dictate which regimes are accceptable when there is no popular demand for intervention from within the country being attacked. This attack seems all the more like warmongering because its motives are suspect. The arbitrariness of the choice of Iraq as a target is underlined by the relatively recent action of Britain in selling arms to Iraq, and by the existence of numerous other regimes in the world which clearly violate the human rights of their own or neighbouring countries' citizens." -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html