What To Do (part 2)

From a pacifist group:


IRAN NEXT? NO WAR!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:

CALL
Ask your Congressional Representative to OPPOSE
H Con Res 362 “The Iran Blockade Resolution”.
A blockade, even a partial one, is an act of war. Peaceful prevention of deadly conflict is possible.

For more information about this bill:
http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=11521886

To figure out who your congressperson is:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Call the Congressional switchboard:
202-224-3121
800-828-0498
866-340-9281


SIGN
Sign the Peace Action online petition against war with Iran. This is a growing list of 100,000 names to lobby for peace.

http://www.peace-action.org/Iran/index



Who wants diplomacy not war?

Five former Secretaries of State, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, James Baker III, Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, members of both political parties, met in March 2008 and urged the next presidential administration to open a dialogue with Iran.


US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in 2004, expressed his reservations over an attack on Iran, saying such a move "will create generations of Jihadists". In April 2007, he said that diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff with Iran over its disputed nuclear program are "working" and should be given a chance to succeed.


Admiral William “Fox” Fallon, former Chief of US Central Command: "This constant drumbeat of conflict ... is not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for. We ought to try to do our utmost to create different conditions." What America needs, Fallon says, is a "combination of strength and willingness to engage".


Senator Barack Obama said, “… the threat from Iran is grave but what I've said is that we should not just talk to our friends, we should be willing to engage our enemies as well”.