City Council Resolution Against the War
Syracuse
RESOLUTION RELATING TO OPPOSING UNILATERAL US MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAQ

WHEREAS It is essential to exert untiring efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and to advance democracy and human rights, and

WHEREAS Military force against Iraq or any other sovereign nation should be used only in self defense when there is an imminent threat of attack by the sovereign state against the United States, and

WHEREAS the Congress of the United States has given the President authorization to proceed unilaterally to use military force against the sovereign state of Iraq, and

WHEREAS the conditions of surrender by Iraq in the Gulf war were exacted of Iraq by the United Nations, and their enforcement therefore is solely under the jurisdiction of that body and not its individual members, and

WHEREAS the United Nations has not authorized the use of military force against Iraq,
be it resolved that:

The Common Council of the City of Syracuse, New York,

1) Urges the people of Syracuse to exert efforts to convince the President not to unilaterally initiate any war, and,

2) Urges the United Nations to be actively involved in securing the peace and stability of the Middle East, and

3) Urges the Executive and Legislative arms of the government to attend to long neglected problems of this country which include the depressed economy, the precarious state of the environment, the availability of affordable health care and the internal domestic security of our nation.

This resolution will be communicated to the United Nations, the President of the United States, our Congressional representatives, and in general be made available to as large an audience as feasible through the public media.

For Further information contact:

John Brule 445-0698; 116 Killian Drive, Syracuse, 13224

signed: John & Dolores Brule, Vince & Nancy O'Neil, Bill Coop, Frank Woolever, John Burdick, Andy Mager, Mary Ann Zeppetello, Mary Giegengack-Jureller, John Murray, Ollie Clubb, Robert & Betty Belge, Nancy Sullivan Murray, Mary Klein Maples, Theodore C Sizing.

Outside of Syracuse: Sam Fetters, Yvonne & Martin Rothenberg, Mark Brule, Ralph Jones