Tell Bush: Not another war

U.S. has called a NATO meeting on Tues, Aug 19 on a U.S./NATO Intervention in Georgia.

Tell BUSH: NOT ANOTHER WAR!
U.S./NATO Out of Georgia!

All Out - Emergency Protest
Monday, Aug 18 -  5pm
Times Square Recruiting Station, 43rd St. & Broadway, NYC

WAR IN THE CAUCASUS - MADE IN THE USA

Stop the Pentagon's Drive to the East

The Bush regime is threatening a military confrontation with Russia over a lie. The lie, echoed by the corporate news media, is that Russia launched an unprovoked attack on Georgia, formerly a republic of the Soviet Union.

In fact, the war began Aug. 7, when Georgia's CIA-installed president Mikheil Saakashvili unleashed his U.S.- and Israeli-armed and-trained forces on the tiny autonomous region of South Ossetia, murdering hundreds of civilians and attacking Russian peacekeeping troops stationed there.

The people of South Ossetia have made it clear they want to unite with the autonomous republic of North Ossetia-Alania, which is part of the Russian Federation. Most South Ossetians carry Russian passports.

Russian troops answered the Georgian attack, and, together with South Ossetian fighters, repelled the invaders. Russia also came to the aid of Abkhazia, another autonomous region threatened by the Saakashvili regime. The Georgian president called for direct U.S. military intervention and whined that "America is losing the region"--as if it the Caucasus belongs to the United States!

Saakashvili launched his attack as a massive U.S. Naval armada heads for Iran. U.S. Special Forces and Israeli advisers and mercenary contractors direct the Georgian military, which held three weeks of joint exercises with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in July. It is unlikely the Georgian army went into action without U.S. knowledge.

The Bush regime is now sending air and naval forces to Georgia under the pretext of delivering "humanitarian aid." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pentagon boss Robert Gates are also headed to Georgia.

The Bush regime and the corporate U.S. news media have launched an anti-Russia hate campaign reminiscent Cold War propaganda against the USSR. On Aug. 14 the U.S. announced a deal to station U.S. missiles on Polish soil.

Ever since the USSR dissolved and socialist planning was destroyed, the Pentagon has sought to expand into East Europe and the former Soviet republics surrounding Russia. Washington spent $13 trillion to destroy the Soviet Union, and Wall Street and the Pentagon now act as if the former Soviet land and resources belong to them. They want to destroy Russia as an economic competitor and seize the rich energy resources of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Georgia itself is a major transit point for Central Asian oil. Three huge pipelines cross Georgian territory, all controlled by U.S. and British corporate interests. The largest, the Baku-Tbilsi-Ceyhan pipeline, was made profitable by the huge spike in oil prices driven by the U.S. attack on Iraq.

U.S.-instigated bloodshed in the Caucasus is of a piece with the Bush regime's genocidal slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan and the threatened war against Iran. It is one war to gain a monopoly on the world's energy resources for giant firms like ExxonMobil, which took in $11.4 billion in profits last quarter. The drive for higher corporate profits will lead to wider and wider war unless the people stop it by mass action.

We call on all those who oppose war and injustice, who oppose corporate power and want to see funding for jobs, health care, housing and education, not endless war, to demand an end to Washington's military intervention in Eastern Europe and the countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.

Emergency Mass Action is needed now.

NO MORE WARS FOR BIG OIL PROFITS!
NO TO NATO EXPANSION!
NO U.S. TROOPS, MISSILES OR BASES IN THE COUNTRIES SURROUNDING RUSSIA!

Issued by: International Action Center,
55 W. 17St, # 5C, NY, NY 10011,
www.IACenter.org  212-633-6646