George "Dubya" Bush, along with his Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, are expected to arrive in Australia on Wednesday 22 October, following the conclusion of the APEC conference. He will be addressing federal parliament at 10:30am on Thursday 23 October. Protest actions are being planned, designed to send the message to George W Bush and his close political friend, John W Howard, that warmongers are not welcome.

In Sydney you are asked to meet at 5:00pm @ Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday 22nd. Buses will be travelling to Canberra early the following morning.

Keep watching this website for details of how you can protest and exercise your democratic right to express your opposition in Sydney and Canberra to the warmongering of our political leaders.

Sydney Organising Meetings
Mondays @ 7:00pm at Level 3, Spanish Club, 88 Liverpool St, City
Short walk from Railway Square / Central Station
ph Brian 0425 347 634 - Nick 0409 762 081 - Rihab 0405 760 929 - Bashir 0413 859 060

Canberra Organising Meetings
Tuesdays @ 5.30pm in Room G008, Moran Building, Australian National University
( in the Quadrangle behind the Street Theatre on Childers St)

Buses are leaving from Central Station, Sydney at 5:00am, Thursday 23rd October
for the Canberra rally (starting 9:00am). It will return later in the afternoon.
To book your spot on the bus phone:
Phone Nick 0409 762 081 or Brian 0425 347 634 or Bashir 0413 859 060

If you're driving or are looking for lift to the national action in Canberra, you can also post a message on the Stop Dubya! Bulletin Board. Make sure you leave email or contact details, as well as planned times of travel.

Bush is using military power to secure the dominance of a neo-liberal economic world order.

In the face of the largest political demonstrations in Australian and world history, the leaders of the "coalition of the willing" - Bush, Blair and Howard - unleashed devastation and misery on the people of Iraq.

Everyone who opposes the US administration's aggressive foreign policy agenda and contempt for democracy should come out and tell Bush, Rumsfeld and Co in person.

The visit by Bush and Rumsfeld is also widely accepted to be a "reward" to Howard for his shameless and untiring support for Bush's invasion of Iraq, the never-ending "war on terror" and commitment to "free trade".

The Bush visit is a chance to embarrass Howard by demonstrating that despite his attempts to ignore enormous anti-war sentiment, opposition to war in Iraq, to "globalisation at gunpoint" has not gone away.

The Stop the War Coalition in Sydney is mobilising around growing opposition to the occupation of Iraq and expect that many people will also join in protest given the US government's support for global trade regulations which privilege rich countries over poor, their refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol and the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty, their support for compliant dictatorships such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and their continued backing for Israel's war on Palestine.

George Bush could reasonably be described as America's Biggest Serial Killer with 155 homicides and hundreds more attempts (some scheduled dates got last minute stays). Dubya is responsible for more executions than any other elected official in recorded American history.

Under then-Governor George W. Bush, Texas ranked first in executions and dead last in social services. Bush opposed legislation banning the execution of people with IQs under 65 and legislation providing funding for the basic legal defense of indigent people. Instead Bush signed off on 155 executions, in what has been described as an "assembly-line" death penalty process. In a 1998 report, Amnesty International stated that "at every step in the death penalty process in Texas, a litany of grossly inadequate legal procedures fail to meet recognized minimum international standards for the protection of human rights."

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Warmongers like Bush always seem to be able to find funding for the military at the expense of the real needs of people and the environment. The billions that Dubya is prepared to put up for occupying Iraq could be spent assisting in debt relief for developing countries, for example, helping to alleviate the desperate conditions which create poverty and social instability.

Australia's involvement in the Iraq war is expected to cost at least $645 million - money which could have been spent on health, education and affordable housing.

And all this fails, of course, to take into account the tremendous human cost in Iraq...

The leaders of the "coalition of the killing" are coming under continued pressure as the truth slowly but surely comes out about their lies regarding Iraq and WMD.

Despite a long and fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the US maintains that they are keeping us safe from "rogue states" and "terrorists".

The US, however, with an annual military budget of almost half a trillion US dollars has more weapons of mass destruction than any other nation and are prepared to use them. We know where the weapons are - and we know where the real threat lies...

A brief chronology of the case of the missing weapons...

Paul Wolfowitz 28 May, 2003

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."

Donald Rumsfeld 10 September, 2003 "Sometimes I overstate for emphasis. I should have said, 'I believe we're in that area'."	Dick Cheney 14 September, 2003 "I misspoke. We never had evidence that [Saddam] had acquired a nuclear weapon."
David Kay 3 October 2003 reporting on the work of the 1,200-strong CIA-led Iraq Survey Group "We have not yet found stocks of weapons"   Hans Blix 3 October 2003 "I don't think there are any surprises."

In the face of a number of high profile corporate collapses, Dubya would like us to think that he is getting tough on corporate crime. But of course, he is one of those criminals.

Enron recently filed what was at the time, the largest bankruptcy in US history (since then, WorldCom has that distinction). Enron executives helped shape White House energy policy - a fact that Bush and vice president Dick Cheney diligently tried to keep secret.

Enron was Bush's and the Republican Party's largest campaign contributer. Over 50 high-level officials in the Bush Administration, including the White House, the Departments of the Treasury, Commerce, and State, the U.S. Trade Representative's office and EPA, had ties to Enron. In fact, Bush is so tight with former CEO, Kenneth Lay, that he calls him, affectionately, "Kenny Boy".


The corporate carve-up of Iraq continues Dubya's "good work", with the value of contracts awarded to Halliburton - formerly run by Cheney - currenlty amounting to $US2 billion ($A3.01 billion).

Halliburton began work in Iraq with a $US37.5 million ($A56.5 million) no-bid contract in February to put out oil fires. That deal, expanded to include pumping oil, is now worth about $US948 million ($A1.43 billion). But the oil contract alone, awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, is potentially worth up to $US7 billion ($A10.55 billion), the military have said.

The contracting was done behind closed doors which circumvented traditional bidding procedures. Cheney, while insisting he has no financial interest in his former company, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Halliburton since taking office.