Issued January 30, 2006
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A war based on
lies that put our troops in harm’s way, killing more than 2200 and
wounding and maiming 20,000 more (many of them coworkers
and family of union members);
National Guard and
Reserve members taken from their jobs, families and communities for
indefinite service (essentially a backdoor draft);
Veterans’ benefits
and services cut at the very time their need is growing;
A war costing
hundreds of billions of dollars has siphoned funds from programs to meet
human needs – for jobs, health care, housing, education, infrastructure,
care for victims of disasters, rebuilding the storm-ravaged Gulf area,
protecting our environment and more;
Millions of our
tax dollars funneled to corporate cronies of the Bush administration and
growing corruption in government;
100,000 Iraqis
killed, a majority of Iraqis turned against us, terrorism spreading, our
nation and the world less, not more secure;
In the name of
“spreading freedom,” our own civil liberties are threatened and
Constitution undermined; the right to organize is under siege here while
being denied to workers in Iraq;
A war that has
served as a smokescreen for a corporate assault on working people and our
unions: pensions canceled, jobs outsourced & privatized, plants
shuttered, working conditions eroded, immigrants scapegoated, and the
social safety we fought so long to create in tatters;
Tax breaks for the
rich, subsidies for corporations, and the shaft for the rest of
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