Join ANTI-WAR GAMES "OPERATION SNAFU"

12 Noon Monday 8 May

Office of U.S. Sen. Kit Bond 

10^th St. & Cherry in Columbia

in preparation & public resistance to a possible U.S. attack on Iran. 

Taking a page from war planners, mid-Missouri peace activists will initiate Anti-War Games at Sen. Kit Bond's Columbia office, at 10^th St. and Cherry, beginning at 12 noon, Monday, 8 May. The nonviolent exercise is planned by citizens in preparation for a possible U.S. attack on Iran. 

            "History is repeating itself with  President Bush's repeated demonization of Iran in the press and threats of military action against the Iranian people, including the use of nuclear weapons. Bush refuses to take nuclear weapons 'off the table,'” says Steve Jacobs (also known as "Generalissimo Jacobs"). Journalist Sy Hersh reports clandestine U.S. forces have already been inserted into Iran as they were in Iraq prior to our invasion there." Says Peace Generalissimo Jacobs, "All the signs for an attack are there."    

"So we're going to escalate our nonviolent opposition to Oil War II and institute some training exercises for activists to use if and when the attack on Iran comes. We intend to make our Anti-War games as realistic as possible by using an actual congressional office to practice sit-ins, blocking doors and even a mock draft card burning since expanding the war to a third Muslim country could well necessitate a return of the draft because our military is already stretched thin", says Jacobs.

Organizers do not anticipate any arrests because the Anti-War Games will conduct exercises just to the line of legality so that future office blockaders can get a sense of what an actual sit-in and blockade at a congressional office is like in "real world/war conditions." Sen. Bond has been a unflinching supporter of the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq, which has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqis and more than 2300 U.S. military personnel. He was one of the few senators to vote against the bill to ban torture by the U.S and consistently has been a proponent of U.S. military intervention. It's likely he would again be walking lockstep with the White House in advocating a war upon Iran.

Anti-War Games are sorely needed in the peace movement. The Bush-Cheney administration and congresspeople like Sen. Bond are quite willing to authorize the wholesale slaughter of people in other lands for the sake of the U.S. economic-political empire. They're willing to put the lives of U.S. soldiers in harm's way. Most of these men and women are all too wiling to follow orders to kill, orders also putting their lives on the line. It's time for peacemakers to step forth and demonstrate our willingness to take nonviolent risks to our freedom, affirming our commitment to peace and our revulsion to a U.S.-fought “Perpetual War.”

Anti-War Games are sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation and the St. Francis House Catholic Worker community. For more information contact Generalissimo Jacobs (573-875-4913) or the Grand Pooba of Peace Jeff Stack (573-449-4585).