[PAA-Discuss] Petition -final

[Massoud]

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David Atwood, Bart Boyce, Robert Graham, Deborah shafto, Jamal M. Siyaj, James Schriver, Zhaleh ----, Ester King, Phil Komi, Nicida L. Maerefat,  Nora Dwyer, Julianna Gustafson Lira, Joseph Prevo, Lee Loe, donald cook, Bill Crosier, C. Lee Taylor, Massoud Nayeri, Debbie Nayeri, 




Petition
THE MILITARY SURGE IS BAD FOR AFGHANS AND AMERICANS

 

President Obama, we the people of these United States believe your decision to launch a military "surge" in Afghanistan is bad for the people of Afghanistan and bad for the people of our country.  Your speech on Dec. 1, 2009 was eerily reminiscent of President George Bush in the lead up to the Iraq invasion and occupation – a war that has caused the deaths of more than 4600 US soldiers and one million Iraqis, another million maimed and more than 4 million Iraqis displaced (U.N. refugee agency - 2007).

 

President Obama, we the people of these United States believe your decision to launch a military "surge" in Afghanistan is bad for the people of Afghanistan and bad for the people of our country.  We are suffering in the U.S. with a broken health care system, inadequate education funding, unemployment, bankruptcies, homelessness, and an environmental and energy crisis, while being told there are not adequate funds to deal with those needs. Yet every hour you spend more than $11 million for your war - you are charging us $100 billion a year. Needless to say this is our money that our families need desperately to improve our quality of life and ensure a decent future for our children.

 

President Obama, we the people of these United States believe your decision to launch a military "surge" in Afghanistan is bad for the people of Afghanistan and bad for the people of our country.  All independent reports suggest that the majority of people in Afghanistan see the American troops as an army of occupiers. This fact and the killing of innocent and defenseless Afghan men, women and children by the blind U.S. drones and missiles, creates more hatred and exacerbates other problems in the region and internationally. This is a military policy that breeds extremism rather than eliminates it.

 

President Obama, we the people of these United States believe your decision to launch a military "surge" in Afghanistan is bad for the people of Afghanistan and bad for the people of our country.  In announcing the surge, you mention a July 2011 timeline for withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, which was rejected by your own Defense Secretary Gates within 24 hours of your speech. You know better than anybody else that your timeline is disingenuous, and will cost the lives of our youth and our future only to guarantee the profit for a minority in this nation whose business is war.

 

President Obama, we the people of these United States believe your decision to launch a military "surge" in Afghanistan is bad for the people of Afghanistan and bad for the people of our country.  We demand that you bring the troops home NOW. War and militarism rob the United States of its financial resources. We are tired of the cost and talk of war and torture. This war is already a defeat for the average hard working Afghan and American. We need peace to end poverty and to ensure prosperity for generations to come. 

 

End the war now!

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