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The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

UFPJ Talking Points # 22: Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi has made it clear that democracy is not on his agenda.

UFPJ Talking Points #21: Actual control remains with the United States.

The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

UFPJ Talking Points #20: It credentials the US-dominated occupation forces as a UN mandated ‘multi-national force’, and endorses the Iraqi interim government as sovereign.

UFPJ Talking Points #19: The interim government, like the Iraq Governing Council, is a creature of the US, not the UN.

UFPJ Talking Points #18: It is a recipe for continuing occupation, deaths of Iraqis and US soldiers, and destruction of Iraq.

UFPJ Talking Points #17: Actions by US troops reflect the racist demonization of Iraqis that has been at the heart of US Iraq policy since 1990.

UFPJ Talking Points #16: U.S. drive towards empire faces new and serious challenges.

UFPJ Talking Points #15: the “transfer of power” will not end the occupation of Iraq, and the need for voters to reclaim Spanish democracy.

UFPJ Talking Points #14: The U.S. is eager for the UN to return to Iraq to provide political cover for its occupation.

UFPJ Talking Points #13: Omissions, Denials, and Lies.

UFPJ Talking Points #11 : Americans, only please!

UFPJ Talking Points #10: Bush calls for a “forward strategy of freedom” and puts forth a high-profile timetable for Iraq.

UFP Talking Points #9: The proposal under tentative U.S. consideration calls for creation of a UN- endorsed multi-lateral military force

UFPJ Talking Points #8: Mosts Iraqis are relieved at the fall of Saddam but the current chaos and lack of authority are worse.

After failing to obtain authorization for war from the UN Security Council, the Bush Administration has scrambled to assemble a so-called “Coalition of the Willing” to lend the military action against Iraq the illusion of genuine multilateralism and legitimacy.

UFPJ Talking Points #7: It threatens our Constitution, isolates our country, threatens Americans, and will be devastating for Iraq and Iraqis.

UFPJ Talking Points #6: The US has abandoned diplomacy in favor of choosing an elective war.

The U.S. public should carefully scrutinize any claim by the Bush Administration that they
have assembled a “coalition of the willing.”