The organizers of yesterday’s vigil in remembrance of US soldiers who have died in the Iraq War are asking opponents of the war to call Representative Vern Ehlers today (October 27) to tell him to stop supporting the war in Iraq. Since the Bush administration’s fall 2002 campaign to increase public support for the war, Representative Ehlers has been a staunch supporter of the war. Ehlers, who called his vote to give President George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq the “most difficult” vote of his career, consistently ignored the concerns of opponents of the war and raised the specter of a nuclear terrorist attack in Grand Rapids:
Saddam Hussein continues, in violation of the UN’s sanctions and the peace agreement he signed, to develop and produce chemical and biological weapons for war and terror. Most troubling, he continues to develop nuclear weapons and may be as little as a year or two away from success. As a nuclear physicist, I know the destructive force of nuclear weapons. If a weapon of the type he is developing was detonated over Calder Plaza, the blast would devastate all of Grand Rapids and the near suburbs, a firestorm would consume the rest of the suburbs and a lethal dose of radiation would envelop much of the downwind area. All told, upwards of 300,000 people would be killed. Saddam Hussein’s regime poses a very real threat to the safety of the United States, the safety of his own people and, indeed, the safety of the rest of the world.
During the Iraq war, local activists targeted Representative Ehlers for his support of the war and produced a video called the “Trial of Vern Ehlers” (script) that outlines why he should be tried as a war criminal for his support of the invasion of Iraq.
Ehlers’ local office can be reached at 616-451-8383.
Related posts:
- Email Action Targets Representative Ehlers’ Support of Iraq War
- Video: Protest Targets Representative Ehlers’ Support of the Iraq War
- Representative Ehlers Admits “Tens of Thousands” of Civilians Killed in Iraq
- Citizens Charge Representative Vern Ehlers with War Crimes
- Iraq War Panel Discussion Attended by Representative Ehlers
