This Sunday, December 7th, over 2,000 MoveOn members are hosting house parties to screen the new documentary Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War. Some of these folks are opening up their homes to other MoveOn members, and you’re invited to attend. You can find a public party in your area and sign up at:
http://action.moveon.org/meet/parties.html This'll be fun, but it's also really important. Here's a statement from Ambassador Joe Wilson, the man whose wife’s cover as a CIA agent was blown by the White House. Ambassador Wilson, who served as ambassador to Iraq before the first Gulf War, also helped to expose the truth behind the President’s famous assertion that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa. Here’s why he thinks Uncovered is such an important movie:
War is a blunt instrument reserved for those instances when other, less violent actions cannot achieve our national security goals. In the case of Iraq, as you will see in Uncovered, those other actions were working very well. We did not need to go to war to meet the objectives set forth by the President and the international community in UN Security Council resolution 1441. Intrusive inspections were working just fine.
Going to war with Iraq has not made us safer. On the contrary, there are now several hundred million Muslims who hate us. We are now seen by a world that only two years ago stood by our side, as one of the greatest threats to international peace. 130,000 Americans are sitting ducks in Iraq, being picked off one or two a day, while the Iraqi population becomes more and more hostile to our occupation. And this war of choice on Iraq has kept us from finishing the job in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
To find a showing or house party to screen Uncovered in your area, just go to:
http://action.moveon.org/meet/parties.html