Friday
April 15, 2005
Press Conference
and Release of ICUJP's
Call for U.S. Withdrawal
from Iraq by Dec. 31, 2005
9:30 am
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
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From Our Prophetic Traditions
We Call For An End to the Occupation of Iraq
The Interfaith Communities United For Justice and Peace (ICUJP) came together after the 9/11 tragedy, and centered our work in the deep conviction that Religious Communities must stop blessing war and violence.
ICUJP is urgently committed to building a peace and justice movement; we believe the entire U.S. policy toward Iraq has been disastrously wrong, illegal, immoral and indecent.
The cost of U.S. imperial dominance over the Persian Gulf oil fields has been a “near apocalyptic” destruction of Iraq, the death of 1500 U.S. and other coalition troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties.
During the ten years of U.S. led economic sanctions on Iraq, approximately 500,000 children died from malnutrition and disease. The loss suffered by Iraqis has been incalculable.
We call for the U.S. to set a deadline – no later than December 31, 2005 – to get all military personnel, including “private mercenary forces” out of Iraq, leaving no bases behind. End The Failed Iraq Policy – End Occupation by December 31, 2005.
We call on communities of faith and other concerned groups to create plans of action to implement this prophetic position... (continues...)
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