October
29, 2006
Dear fellow anti-war activists,
The last couple of weeks have made
clear that the war in Iraq is the critical issue in the elections
nationwide. With 65% of the population opposed to the war, the
Democrats are demagogically trying to divert this opposition to the war
into support for their candidates. And the media is generally
going along with this ploy.
The fact of the matter is that the
Democrats have consistently supported Bush’s war in Iraq. The
last Senate vote on the military budget and appropriations for the war
was 100-0. To this date, the Democrats stand opposed to the only
real solution to the war – to end it now by withdrawing all U.S. troops
from Iraq immediately.
Debbie Stabenow, incumbent Democrat
for Senate, has voted for every appropriation for the war. She
echoes the Bush-Rumsfield line about the Iraqis assuming more
responsibility for the war, a universally discredited position in light
of the massive defections by the Iraqi military and police whenever
faced with resistance.
Last week the Michigan Citizen,
Detroit’s largest and most progressive African American weekly
newspaper, endorsed David Sole for U.S. Senate. I urge all
anti-war activists to support the Sole for Senate campaign. Don’t
throw away your vote on Debbie Stabenow, a pro-war, anti-immigrant,
anti-civil liberties and anti-worker candidate who will betray every
progressive principle.
With regard to his program, David Sole
states: “I call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops
from Iraq and Afghanistan. I call for using the billions wasted
on the Pentagon’s wars to fund health care, housing, jobs at living
wages, and to rebuild our cities. I am for amnesty and
legalization for undocumented workers, not the racist fence to keep out
immigrants supported by Stabenow and Bouchard. I am for
protecting civil liberties and for repeal of the Patriot Act and
Military Commission Bill, in contrast to Stabenow and Bouchard’s
support for torture and detention without due process. And I am
for genuinely protecting workers’ pensions by not allowing corporations
to use the bankruptcy process to eliminate the pensions and benefits of
the workers, unlike Stabenow and Bouchard who both supported last
year’s anti-worker bankruptcy act.”
Please help get out the word about the
Sole for Senate and Green Party campaign over the next week Come
to a campaign rally next Saturday, November 4, 2006, 5:00 p.m., at
Central United Methodist Church, 23 E. Adams in Detroit. The
leaflet is attached. Donations are desperately needed. Send
donations to Sole for Senate Campaign, 5922 Second Ave., Detroit, MI
48202. For more information about the campaign, visit www.stopthewarslate.org, and
for information on the entire Green Party campaign, visit www.migreens.org.
Sincerely,
Jerry Goldberg for the Sole for Senate
Campaign