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Dear Constance, Rob Merill, and Brian Williams,

I am attempting to organize a peace demonstration in Iran to protest U.S. imperialistic agression.

I'm not sure what else to do to get people to think that, to this administration, this war has only just begun. To me, they have deliberately provoked an Iraqi civil war to destabilize the region and gain the excuses they'd need to attack Iran. TWICE (once in a back alley of Baghdad given by people who did not even give the media their name) they tried to say Iran was arming insurgents in Iraq only to have the now departing Joint Chiefs say there was no such evidence. That is why they are getting rid of Pace... he did not play ball. Anyone who does not see this NEXT war coming from a mile away is blind. Oh... they say, George would never get ANOTHER war authorization to attack Iran. But as Jon Dean pointed out to Keith Obermann two weeks ago, this administration (who has no regard for such things) might just claim it already HAS such authorization in their “war on terror.” We could literally wake up one morning with the headlines "Tehran Bombed: US uses own WMD on Iran" with nothing more to do about it than complain.

Many people don't realize it, but the dems not only gave this trigger-happy administration all the money it asked for, they also pulled language from their new funding bill that would have SPECIFICALLY prevented Bush from attacking Iran without further authorization. Now if that is not a total Green Light for Bush to just go ahead and do it, I don't know what is.

The dems are just dying to show how tough they are on terror so as not to appear weak and are just as likely to try to do so with Iran as the example as the next republican. Nine of ten Republican candidates and even our frontrunner Hillary all want to attack Iran. Even how much this nation is against the Iraq war, the suggestion of a new war with Iran just does not seem to register. It is as if we’ve been preconditioned just to hate without any grounds whatsoever. On MSNBC message boards you frequently hear slogans like fire bomb Gaza or "Nuke Iran." Is that who we've become... a race that thinks we can overcome our problems thought MASS GENOCIDE??? We have a military with 60% of our soldiers who admitted they would not report War Crimes... What the heck is going on?

Thus, to try to sort of “Break the spell” - the 9/11 fever as Obama called it - I not only offered to do a peace demonstration in Iran, but even offered to do a peace sit (like Greenpeace does when trying to bock shipments of radioactive waste or WMD outside a Nuclear facility or military base) right out in front of whatever nuclear facility the US would attack first in Iran. I literally don’t know what else to do and thought that perhaps the US would think twice if its own citizens stood in opposition to their tyranny and the potential start of WWIII. Hirsh from the New Yorker said that this administration WANTS to use small nuclear weapons on Iran and they [top US generals] have threatened to resign in protest over such an outrageous proposal.

Any mention or support would obvisouly be much welcomed.

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