Bush's Iraq Plans a Ploy to Distract from Home Issues: US activist

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Bush's Iraq Plans a Ploy to Distract from Home Issues: US activist

United States civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said Friday the U.S. government of George W. Bush wants to attack Iraq to distract public attention away from domestic problems.

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United States civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said Friday the U.S. government of George W. Bush wants to attack Iraq to distract public attention away from domestic problems.

In a visit to Brazil to back the campaign of left-wing Workers Party presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Jackson told a press conference that there were about 50 million people now in the United States without access to health services, two million unemployed and two million in jail.

He said any Washington action not in compliance with a United Nations resolution would be "dictatorial".

"Bush's will is to follow a unilateral policy," added Jackson, who came to Brazil at the invitation of the Workers Party and was scheduled to meet Sunday with Lula, the favorite to win the Oct. 6presidential election.

The black civil rights activist also commented on the press analysis, which claimed that the Bush administration intended to get control of the oil sources in the Middle East. Iraq has the world's second largest oil reserves, coming after Saudi Arabia.

The United States and Britain have launched a joint diplomatic offensive to win the support of France, Russia and China, the other three permanent members of the UN Security Council, for a draft new resolution against Iraq containing tough terms.

France proposed that one resolution be adopted on the return ofUN weapons inspectors and a second one authorizing force if Iraq failed to comply with the UN will.

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