Media Advisory

GREEN PARTY OF TEXAS
www.txgreens.org

January 2nd, 2007

Contacts:
Kat Swift Co-Chair 210-471-1791 kat@txgreens.org
Doug Reber Co-Chair 512-669-2654 doug_reber@yahoo.com

GREENS BLAST IRAQ OCCUPATION AS U.S. MILITARY DEATH TOLL REACHES 3000

Here in the holiday season, George W. Bush's immoral and illegal occupation of Iraq has reached a grim milestone. As of December 31st, 2006, 3000 honorable men and women of our armed forces have died in this reckless and atrocious act of aggression.

Every claim made to justify this war has been a lie:

• The claims that Iraq was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction
• The claim that somehow Iraq was a clear and imminent threat to the United States
• The claim that our purpose in Iraq was to "liberate" the Iraqi people from tyranny
• The claim that the Hussein regime was in some way connected to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi women, children and men, has cost the lives of 3000 American military men and women, has injured almost 25,000 of our military, has cost this country almost half a trillion dollars, has shattered our foreign relations, and has fostered deep contempt and anger against our country across the globe.

Our military presence in Iraq is fueling the civil war growing there and is inflaming sectarian violence. Our outrageous policy of torturing prisoners of war in Iraq constitutes a horrific violation of American values and principles that puts our own military men and women in grave danger of being tortured themselves.

The Green Party of Texas calls on the White House and Congress to immediately withdraw the American military troops from Iraq and fund an internationally-diverse humanitarian and diplomatic mission to that country.