US activist: Bush's 'deficits' in Iraq

BRISBANE — The US government faces "deficits" on a number of fronts in its occupation of Iraq, leading US peace activist Phyllis Bennis told a public forum at the Avid Reader Bookshop on July 27. The forum was sponsored by the Brisbane Social Forum and Just Peace Queensland.

Bennis said that the US does not have enough troops to win the war in Iraq and is now having great difficulty recruiting. The peace movement, led by the growing anti-war section of the US military and their families, is engaged in a "counter recruitment" campaign, to convince young Americans not to join up for the war in Iraq.

The anti-war movement at home and abroad had created a "second superpower, which had ensured that the Iraq war was illegal", Bennis said, concluding that the hope for the future is in the growth and deepening of that movement.

Jim McIlroy

From Green Left Weekly, August 3, 2005.

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