WHY do we have to spell out exactly what "End the War" means?  Because our
senators and representatives in Congress of both parties, our presidential candidates of
both parties, and the media ARE ALL VAGUE ABOUT WHAT "ENDING  THE
WAR" MEANS.

 Candidates of both parties  have had to be dragged to take a position on the war. Those
candidates now on record as opposing the war, are very vague about what "ending the
war"  means. Hilary said that she would bring the troops home except for those needed
to fight Al Qaeda and protect our property. Obama was asked directly recently during
 the debate about his position on bringing the troops home. He spoke eloquently and
charismatically, but never answered the question. Yet, he was very precise in his promise
to wage preemptive war on Pakistan.   No-one has talked about what will happen to the
 mercenary troops who almost equal the number of regular troops (160 thousand).
No-one is talking about the oil that the Iraqis supposedly owe us for invading them.
No-one is talking about what is going to happen to the huge bases called "temporary
bases" or "embassies."

 WHAT do we do with the "Seven Zeros?"  Use it as a tool to force the
presidential candidates and your Congressional representatives to state their real
position on ending the war. Send each of the candidates a copy and publicize their
answers and non-answers. The answer or non-answer  to the questions is a news item
 especially if you form a group. The material is also well fitted to letters to the editor.
The material can be sent to your favorite TV and radio stations, demanding that these
 key questions be answered in interviews with presidential candidates, incumbent congress
 people and party leaders. Actions can be brought against advertisers to get the media'
attention to these requests. You can educate your friends.

     ENDING THE WAR - "THE SEVEN ZEROS"

       
Whereas, the United States invaded Iraq, illegally, immorally, in contravention of 
United States Law,  United States Treaty Law, International Law, the Christian
 religion, the Jewish religion, the Islamic religion, and most of the World's religions.

 Whereas, the United States has done horrendous  damage to the Iraqi people, 
their  children and descendants by murdering over 650,000 Iraqi people, more
than half of them  women and children, maiming thousands more and sentencing 
children for generations to birth defects from depleted uranium.
                                                                                                                                                                       
Whereas, the United States has destroyed a whole society, "The cradle of civilization.,"
  its land, its buildings, its whole infrastructure including water, electricity, sewerage,
agriculture, employment, education, telephone and historical artifacts, creating millions
of  refugees within and outside of Iraq. 

 Whereas, this destructive  Iraq invasion was not the lumbering miscalculation of a
caring United States giant that got caught in a quagmire , but rather a calculated act
of the United States government which continues a pattern for at least fifty two years
of the United States undermining the governments of over 67 nations to produce years
 of murder and torture under dictatorships. In thirty four of those cases by the United
States attacking by force.* U.S. "Embassies" and locations have become centers
for subversion  by the US of the country they are in.

                 
Whereas, the first real purpose of this destructive Iraq invasion was to steal Iraq oil
by making agreement to this theft a part of the Iraq Constitution, one of the "brownie"
points that the present puppet government will be graded on by the United States.

                 
Whereas, the second purpose of this destructive Iraq invasion is to establish bases
 in the area to supervise other countries, these huge bases made with poured
concrete and having their own air strips and swimming pools being called
"Temporary Bases" and "Embassies,"

                 
Whereas, the number of United States mercenary soldiers, euphemistically  called
 "Contractors""Security"  etc., under commercial control of companies like
Blackwater  in Iraq, is almost equal to the number of  soldiers under United
States government control in Iraq;

We, the Citizens and Voters of the United States, resolve to demand from our
elected officials, the following "Seven Zeros" program:

    1.  Zero   United States government troops  remaining in Iraq after three months

           
    2.  Zero   mercenary troops, called "Contractors," "Security" etc,  remaining
in Iraq after 3 months

    3. Zero    number of temporary or permanent United States bases, embassies 
 or buildings of all  sizes in Iraq after 3 months. Diplomatic relations will be conducted
through a third country.
 
    4. Zero   claim to any asset or any portion of an asset of the Iraqi people or any
claim to structuring of Iraqi law regarding assets or other matters.

     5. Zero  number of United States private buildings of any and all sizes in Iraq 
 after 3 months. Any investment in privately owned buildings whether owned  directly 
or owned by a surrogate will be lost and the value held to be equal to zero.

    6. Zero  delay in announcing and starting the immediate beginning and three month completion of both United States government and mercenary troop removal; in 
removal of United States government and private owned United States buildings
of any and all sizes, and beginning and ending the issues in all the clauses above.

   7. Zero excuses and exculpatory reasons why the United States invaded Iraq.

                                                                              Stuart Shaw      Shaw1@verizon.net

* "Rogue State, "William Blum, 2000, Common courage Press, Box 702, Monroe, ME 04951, p126-167
or search Internet under: Philippines 45-53, Korea 49-53, Lebanon 56-58, Haiti 1959, Peru 65,
Dominican Republic 63-65, Honduras 1980, Grenada 1983,Panama 1989, El Salvador 80-92
 Somalia1 1993, 2007, Laos 57-73, Libya 81-84, Thailand 65-83, Afghanistan 2002,  Indonesia 65, ETC.