The following is a statement issued by Diane Sare for President on the occasion of the April 11 vigil for peace initiated by the Pope. Emphasis is in the original.
Despite enormous and ugly pressure from the Pentagon in the United States, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has held steadfast for peace. He has called on all people of good will and all faiths, or no faith, to join in a day of prayer for peace on April 11. Dioceses in at least forty nations are answering the call. We in the United States uniquely have the capability to bring this war to an end.
While sadly there are too many wars raging on this planet, the latest war, the war of choice launched by the United States and Israel, has the greatest danger of becoming a nuclear conflagration. This war of aggression, launched on February 28, has already claimed the lives of thousands of Iranian and Lebanese civilians, including nearly 200 young girls at a school in Minab, Iran. Not less than thirteen Americans have also died in this senseless act of unprovoked violence.
As an independent presidential candidate, (and long-time associate of the late American statesman Lyndon LaRouche) who is deeply disturbed by the grip of the Epstein class on the leadership of both parties, including on the current occupant of the White House, I was greatly relieved to be reminded by constitutional law expert Bruce Fein that it is the Congress, (whose members are all up for election this November), that holds the power of the purse. They can end this war by cutting off the funding.
We Americans have a special responsibility for the origin of this war, and we also have the power to stop it. We have been called into action by an American Pope. Twice within the five weeks of this war, the Congress has shamefully abdicated its responsibility by refusing to pass a War Powers Resolution and cut the funding.
Attorney Bruce Fein reminds us that in 1973 the U.S. Congress voted to end the funding of the Vietnam War. President Nixon vetoed that resolution, and Congress overrode his veto with a two-thirds majority vote, and that is how the Vietnam War was brought to an end, but only after two million Vietnamese and 57,000 Americans had lost their lives. We must not wait so long this time.
