Friends: Please sign on to this very important (and
very timely) petition, and please forward it widely.
Here is the link:

 http://www.petitiononline.com/antiSark/petition.html


and here is the text of the petition itself:

Members of the Global Anti-War Movement Oppose Nicolas
Sarkozy

As members of the international anti-war movement -
and more broadly, members of the vast majority of
citizens of the world who recognize the disastrous
consequences of the invasion of Iraq by the US and its
allies - we wish to voice our opposition to French
Presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, and to express
our fervent hope that the French people will reject
him in the May 6 election.

Unlike Sarkozy, we admired France's opposition to the
invasion in
2003. Sarkozy may have accused Prime Minister
Dominique de Villepin of "arrogance" for his
now-famous UN address on that occasion, but we
appreciated Villepin's dissenting voice when faced
with the lack of
respect the US and the UK displayed for this
international institution. Unlike Sarkozy, we believe
that all nations must obey international law,
including laws concerning human rights and
immigration. We believe that those responsible for
crimes against humanity, such as genocide and/or the
systematic practice of torture, should be brought to
justice; unlike Sarkozy, who has denied and/or
minimized the crimes committed under both French
colonialism and the Vichy regime on numerous occasions
in order to gain votes from supporters of the
right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen. Unlike
Sarkozy, we believe that maintaining civil liberties
and a free and independent press is vital to insuring
that democratic nations live in peace with one
another; we oppose his use of fear-mongering,
propaganda and misinformation, the same tools that
were used by the US and UK in order to drum up support
for an illegal war.

The world does not need another George Bush or Tony
Blair. The defeat of Silvio Berlusconi was a victory
for all of us, as well as for the
Italian people. We hope that the French people will
deliver another
resounding "no!" to American imperialism and its
supporters on May 6,
and once again earn the admiration of the world.