A group of people in Sudbury looking to form the Sudbury Peace Council is condemning the U.S. missile strike against the Syrian Arab Republic.
About a dozen members of the group gathered in downtown Sudbury on Saturday. They held signs in front of the Rainbow Centre, demonstrating their support for Canada accepting refugees, as well as to let the city know they are against “U.S. wars of aggression,” said spokesperson David Starbuck.
“First, we want to welcome immigrants to our community,” Starbuck said. “We also want to send a message against the cause of refugees. It's one thing to support refugees, but in doing so, you also need to oppose the actions that lead to refugees. So, we're taking a stand against the recent missile attack by (U.S. President Donald) Trump, who has all of a sudden become the darling of the democrats and media like CNN and NBC, who were just demonizing him up until a few days ago.”
Starbuck is part of an ad hoc committee working to establish the Sudbury Peace Council. He said the recent missile attack on the Syrian air base quashes any hopes of peace, and, coupled with the recent introduction of about 2,000 U.S. troops into eastern Syria, “signals the willingness of the Trump regime to escalate the war against Syria.”
Starbuck said history dictates that most often, when hysteria prevails following a major incident such as the chemical attacks in Syria, it never leads to a positive outcome.
“The Sudbury Peace Council notes that U.S. wars of aggression have always been accompanied by rabid pro-war propaganda of the U.S. corporate media, from the time of the Maine incident, which was used by the Hearst chain to create popular support for the Spanish-American War in 1898, to the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, which the U.S. used to escalate its war against Vietnam, to the stories of alleged weapons of mass destruction used to justify the US invasion of Iraq in 2003,” the group said in a news release.
“We urge people to remain calm, seek truth from facts, and find their bearings in these troubling times.”
