If Traverse City were in Iran . . . this location would be a target
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Over 4 years ago, on February 26, 2003, the Traverse Area Peace and Justice Community was trying to stop the Iraq war. One of our actions was to educated the public about the horrific possibilities of the war — especially the impact on the civilian populations.
We created an action called “If Traverse City were Baghdad . . . “
This sign appeared at eight local military/civilian — so-called “dual use — targets in order to educate our citizens to the impact of war on Iraq.
If Traverse City were Baghdad, these sites would likely have been destroyed by enemy bombs. Information about this past action is here and a video clip of it can be seen on VentingMedia - here.
It might now be time for this action again, but this time it would be call “If Traverse City were in Iran . . .”
An article published on Wednesday, February 28, 2007, “The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War“, by George Lakoff contained . . .
“Then, there is the scale of the proposed attack. Military reports leaking out suggest a huge (mostly or entirely non-nuclear) airstrike on as many as 10,000 targets — a “shock and awe” attack that would destroy Iran’s infrastructure the way the US bombing destroyed Iraq’s. The targets would not just be “military targets.” As Dan Plesch reports in the New Statesman, February 19, 2007, such an attack would wipe out Iran’s military, business, and political infrastructure. Not just nuclear installations, missile launching sites, tanks, and ammunition dumps, but also airports, rail lines, highways, bridges, ports, communications centers, power grids, industrial centers, hospitals, public buildings, and even the homes of political leaders. That is what was attacked in Iraq: the “critical infrastructure.” It is not just military in the traditional sense. It leaves a nation in rubble, and leads to death, maiming, disease, joblessness, impoverishment, starvation, mass refugees, lawlessness, rape, and incalculable pain and suffering.”
The military supports this kind of action with the “Christian Just-War Ethic”. An excerpt from an article on Military dual-use targeting — Bombing Dual-Use Targets: Legal, Ethical, and Doctrinal Perspectives, by Kenneth R. Rizer, From: Air & Space Power Chronicles, May 2001.
… Finally, the US Air Force has a vested interest in attacking dual-use targets so long as dual-use target destruction serves the double role of destroying legitimate military capabilities and indirectly targeting civilian morale. So long as this remains within the letter if not the spirit of the law and the Christian Just-War Ethic, the Air Force will cling to the status quo.” The full article can be found on the web:
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/Rizer.html
This is what happened in Iraq. Are we going to let this happen to the people of Iran in our name? Get involved, help stop the war against Iran before it starts.
Rarely seen pictures of the other side of Tehran, with music from Cat Stevens - here. This is who and what our country will be destroying!
More on the Pentagon war planning for Iran - here
Go to TraverePeaceAlerts.org to get involved.
