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Afghanistan - A Petition to Take Action Against the War

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About this Petition:

We, the undersigned peace and justice leaders, believe that the American military interventions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are deepening quagmires that threaten a Long War without end.

At the current rate of American deaths in Afghanistan, over 1,000 additional American soldiers will be killed in the next two years of “hard fighting” predicted by the Pentagon as the next phase of a ten year occupation. Another $130 billion for Afghanistan and Iraq now is being rushed through a sleeping Congress. An escalation of even more troops is pending.

Now is the time for an exit strategy to end these wars. The government of warlords, drug lords, and landlords we prop up in Kabul is losing more legitimacy by the day. A majority of Americans – including 70 percent from the majority party – now consider Afghanistan a mistake. Leading national security experts even deny that it’s a necessary war.

If we do not decide to disengage at once, our dreams of domestic reform will be squandered by years of war budgets. Our dreams of clean energy will be buried in wars over oil and pipelines. The global good will extended to our new President will be jeopardized.

We understand how difficult it is to reverse a mistaken course. But that is the leadership we need, not one that continually escalates in order not to lose. We have been there.

Much as we were inspired by Barack Obama’s election, we will not be taken for granted by the President and the Congressional majority. The historic victories in 2006 and 2008 were fueled by popular enthusiasm and unprecedented voter turnouts that cannot be reignited by e-mail solicitations. A growing disenchantment with a costly quagmire will threaten all the hopes of 2008. Everything is related now: we cannot afford national health care, housing, and clean energy while spending billions on quagmires across several continents.

Read the full petition at: http://gopetition.com/online/30533.html


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Take a picture of the bottoms of your shoes and send them to the white house like a post card! Yay!

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It would be great if reporters started doing this were ever he had a press conference. What are they going to do? Make everyone leave their foot-ware at the door? Unfortunately for the reporter, it is no laughing matter. He is still detained, has been beaten in jail, and has had his family treated roughly.

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Dustin about 1 year ago

It would be great if reporters started doing this were ever he had a press conference. What are they going to do? Make everyone leave their foot-ware at the door? Unfortunately for the reporter, it is no laughing matter. He is still detained, has been beaten in jail, and has had his family treated roughly.

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God Bless Muntadar
Bush deserves more for killing the innocents in Iraq

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Zayd about 1 year ago

God Bless Muntadar
Bush deserves more for killing the innocents in Iraq

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