16 Years After US Invaded Iraq, Anti-War Groups Demand No Regime Change in Venezuela
Senator Markley has introduced legislation making it clear to President Trump that without congressional authorization—authorization he does NOT have —he may not use military force in Venezuela. Representative David Cicilline has introduced similar legislation in the House
Send a message to your Senators and Representative telling them to cosponsor S.J.Res.11 in the Senate and H.R.1004 in the House to prevent Trump, [national security advisor John] Bolton, and [special envoy to Venezuela Elliot] Abrams from being able to send the U.S. military to intervene in Venezuela.
Seeing echoes of the lead-up to the Iraq war, Brazilian activist Maria Luísa Mendonça told Democracy Now! Wednesday, “it’s important to have resistance” to intervention in Venezuela.
“The discourse about Venezuela is very similar to the discourse about Iraq,” she said. “At the end it’s about lying, misinformation, to promote a war that is… about oil.”
The 2003 invasion of Iraq became an ongoing war that has directly or indirectly killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis—though by some estimates the death toll stands at over one million.
U.S. forces have also been accused of carrying out war crimes and other human rights violations in Iraq. And while U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent time in jail for exposing some of those crimes, architects and cheerleaders of the war have been given platforms at high profile universities, in corporate media, and within the Trump administration.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), pointing to the invasion’s “trail of destruction and lives lost,” urged, “We must hold accountable those who repeated lied in the run-up to war.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), for his part, drew attention to the ongoing “disastrous consequences” of the invasion and called for “a foreign policy that focuses on diplomacy, not war.”