[PAA-Discuss] Petition -final

Wed Dec 16 10:22:03 EST 2009

My name is on this petition and I support Massoud for organizing the
petition..........and I am sure we are going to feel good for doing
something rather than nothing but again........Nothing will change without
revolution.

I agree with Robert 100%, however, after reading Massoud's lengthy prior
e-mail which he brought to our attention, Ron and I support Massoud in what
he is trying to accomplish. Therefore, we will add our name to this
petition. Our signatures are at the bottom of the petition.

Kris

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!

Signed by: 

Ron Graham

Kris Graham

Houston, TX

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From: robert [mailto:gram.graham at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:21 AM
To: graham2639 at mindspring.com; 'Massoud'; 'paa'
Subject: RE: [PAA-Discuss] Petition -final

Obama's West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious
brutal escalation in Afghanistan -- it is nothing less than a declaration of
all-out war by the United States against Pakistan . This is a brand-new war,
a much wider war now targeting Pakistan , a country of 160 million people
armed with nuclear weapons. In the process, Afghanistan is scheduled to be
broken up. This is no longer the Bush Cheney Afghan war we have known in the
past. This is something immensely bigger: the attempt to destroy the
Pakistani central government in Islamabad and to sink that country into a
chaos of civil war, Balkanization, subdivision and general mayhem. The
chosen strategy is to massively export the Afghan civil war into Pakistan
and beyond, fracturing Pakistan along ethnic lines. It is an oblique war
using fourth-generation or guerrilla warfare techniques to assail a country
which the United States and its associates in aggression are far too weak to
attack directly. In this war, the Taliban are employed as US proxies. 

   I understand we have to do everything humanly possible to stop the crimes
our country, our military, our congress, our judiciary, our media, our
President (Commander-in-Chief) are committing..........we are all complicit
in these crimes and we have failed to bring accountability.  

The problem with people, as I see it, is that they want life to adjust to
their expectations instead of adjusting to life as it is. It is a pointless
exercise on their part because, whether they willingly adjust or not, they
will be adjusted just the same. It could be said that everything is perfect
to the minutest detail but we just can't see it. We can't see it because we
have chosen not to accept this.

I've heard it said that a nation (which usually contains cultures) is only
as good as its laws. In practice, a nation is only as good as its ability to
restrain those who have the power and the tools to pervert those laws. This
would include lawyers, judges, politicians, lobbyists and the business
interests which they serve. Any nation that cannot contain these forces
cannot protect their laws or the people who rely on them. We live in times
where this is glaringly evident. New laws are needed but effective laws are
impossible because they are made by the special interests just named. The
people have no say in the making of these laws. They no longer even have a
say in which whore they choose to represent them because none of the choices
can even stand for election without the permission of a foreign nation; I
speak of America by example here but it is so in other nations as well.

The foreign nation of which I speak is not a nation per se. It is a sort of
offshore banking cartel with a military and an army of assassins who make
sure no laws are made that infringe on their capacity to loot and abuse
those whom they consider less than human. This is ironic since they
themselves are not human. One can only be human who behaves like a human
being; otherwise they soon turn into something else unless they were
something else to begin with.

As Kris has suggested even if we got 2 million signatures (including my
mother"s) and we filled the city council Chambers and everyone spoke
pleading to make our city a "Peace City" we would be unable to convince the
present whores to even vote on such a petition.  In the present political
climate of only presenting what can pass.......like Obomba starting with a
"public option" rather than "single payer"........they just don't have the
votes to get passed what the people want.

Nothing will change without a revolution

My name is on this petition and I support Massoud for organizing the
petition..........and I am sure we are going to feel good for doing
something rather than nothing but again........Nothing will change without
revolution.

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