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Subject: [PNEWS] GROUPS CALL FOR REJECTION OF RUMSFELD
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:35:03 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
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SENATE REJECTION OF RUMSFIELD CALLED FOR BY PEACE GROUPS
DEFEAT OF STAR WARS BEGINS WITH RUMSFELD NOMINATION
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bruce Gagnon at Global Network (352) 337-9274
Peter Shaw at Veterans for Peace (814) 237-1216
Investigative Journalist Karl Grossman (631) 725-2858
The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space and
Veterans for Peace, with the support of peace groups around the world, are
calling on the U.S. Senate to reject the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as
the next U.S. Secretary of Defense charging that he is a "Star Wars
zealot" who will cause a new arms race and ultimately war in space.
"Rumsfeld has been the agent of the right-wing and corporate
forces that have been pushing for Star Wars," declared Bruce Gagnon,
Coordinator of the Global Network. "It was Rumsfeld who, in 1998, was
appointed by arch-conservatives Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott to chair a
commission that insisted on prompt deployment of a missile defense system.
The Commission's findings undermined earlier CIA analyses that threats of
attack from 'rogue states' were not iminent, eventually forcing the CIA to
change its projections."
"Rumsfeld was then given the 'Keeper of the Flame' award by the
pro-Star Wars right-wing Center for Security Policy," noted Gagnon, "an
operation funded by the aerospace corporations that seeks to become Star
Wars contractors and which has listed Rumsfeld as a 'trusted advisor' and
a financial supporter." Rumsfeld recently chaired a second Space
Commission, made up of former Space Command leaders, that insists that the
U.S. needs anti-satellite weapons to protect U.S. "space assets."
"Rumsfeld supports U.S. plans to 'control space' in violation of the
intent of the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which sets aside
space for 'peaceful purposes,' and which the U.S. not only has signed but
was a leader in initiating. With Rumsfeld in charge of the Pentagon, we
will see a push for the weaponization of space that will lead to an arms
race in space. Other nations will not submit to having the U.S. 'control
space'. The real fight to stop Star Wars begins with the issue of Senate
approval of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense."
Peter Shaw of Veterans for Peace said that "our members know what war
is about" and described Rumsfeld as a "radical operative of the military
industry complex who opposes the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, testified
against the chemical weapons convention, opposed the SALT II arms
agreement, and lobbied for the B-2 Bomber and the MX Missile--and has
carried the flame for Star Wars. The United States and the world cannot
afford this extreme agenda."
Karl Grossman, author of a soon-to-be-released book, "Weapons In
Space" (Seven Stories Press) which includes information on Rumsfeld and
his Star Wars links, said that "as The Washington Post has just reported,
Rumsfeld is the 'leading proponent not only of national missile defenses,
but also of U.S. efforts to take control of outer space." Grossman, a
professor of journalism at the State University of New York, said that "we
must focus on strengthening the Outer Space Treaty, bolstering it by
banning all weapons from space. Our neighbor Canada is a leader in this
call at the United Nations. With Rumsfeld as defense secretary, the U.S.
will be moving in the other direction: toward war in space."
The Global Network and Veterans for Peace are calling on the Senate
Armed Services Committee, and thereafter the full U.S. Senate, to reject
Rumsfeld. They are organizing a grassroots campaign in which people across
the United States are contacting their U.S. senators and expressing their
opposition to the Bush appointment of Rumsfeld.
Check out the Global Network's web site at:
http://www.space4peace.org
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