Clark prepared to sacrifice New Zealand lives

Press release: Peace Action Wellington

4 November, 2003



Helen Clark illustrated her commitment to sacrifice the lives of young New

Zealanders in pursuit of a US free trade agreement, with her recent

statement that New Zealand troops will remain in Iraq and that “many more

forces will suffer casualties”.



“We have already had one soldier wounded.  How much bloodshed will it take

before Clark rethinks her arrogant position?” said Peace Action Wellington

spokesperson John Anderson.



It is also a fact that the ‘water projects’ New Zealand troops are working

on are part of an industry that the US government has forced open for

privatisation.  It is likely that the projects our troops are risking

their lives for will not belong to the Iraqi people when they are

finished.



If the New Zealand government really cared about the future of the Iraqi

people, it would instead be funding the many unemployed Iraqi engineers in

the region to rebuild their own country, while demanding that the illegal

occupation of Iraq must end.



For more information email Peace Action Wellington

peacewellington@hotmail.com

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