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<div>If you have not already contacted the White House to tell Obama
to bring the troops home from Afghanistan, rather than send more to
die and kill and increase hatred of the US there, do it TODAY.</div>
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<div>See Michael Moore's latest note about this subject below -- I
think he's exactly right, and perhaps what he says might have a little
impact on Obama.</div>
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<div>Go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact to send an e-mail -- it's
quick and easy. For the subject menu, select "I have a
policy statement" and then in the next menu option, select
"Afghanistan".</div>
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<div>If nothing else, tell Obama to bring the troops home now, and
that we need money and support for health care, education, alternative
energy and conservation, and the environment, NOT more dollars and
lives for killiing and destruction.</div>
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<div>Do it now. Tomorrow will be too late.</div>
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<div>Bill</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: "Michael Moore"
<maillist@michaelmoore.com></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: An Open Letter to President
Obama from Michael Moore</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:30:48
-0500</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Reply-To: maillist@michaelmoore.com<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>An Open Letter to President Obama from
Michael Moore<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Monday, November 30th, 2009<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear President Obama,<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Do you really want to be the new
"war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night
(Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than
withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president.
Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing
you could do -- destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have
placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a
multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into
disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they've always heard is
true -- that all politicians are alike. I simply can't believe you're
about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn't
so.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>It is not your job to do what the
generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the
Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That's the way
General Washington insisted it must be. That's what President Truman
told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China.
"You're fired!," said Truman, and that was that. And you
should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt
you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love
our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in' hate these
generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin Powell for
lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has since sought
redemption).<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>So now you feel backed into a corner. 30
years ago this past Thursday (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a
cool idea -- "Let's invade Afghanistan!" Well, that turned
out to be the final nail in the USSR coffin.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>There's a reason they don't call
Afghanistan the "Garden State" (though they probably should,
seeing how the corrupt President Karzai, whom we back, has <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html">his
brother in the heroin trade</a> raising poppies). Afghanistan's
nickname is the "Graveyard of Empires." If you don't believe
it, give the British a call. I'd have you call Genghis Khan but I lost
his number. I do have Gorbachev's number though. It's <a
href="http://www.greencrossinternational.net/contact-us">+ 41 22 789
1662</a>. I'm sure <a
href=
"http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/gorbachev-obama-prepare-ground-withdrawal-afghanistan"><span
></span>he could give you an earful about the historic blunder</a>
you're about to commit.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>With our economic collapse still in full
swing and our precious young men and women being sacrificed on the
altar of arrogance and greed, the breakdown of this great civilization
we call America will head, full throttle, into oblivion if you become
the "war president." Empires never think the end is near,
until the end is here. Empires think that more evil will force the
heathens to toe the line -- and yet it never works. The heathens
usually tear them to shreds.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Choose carefully, President Obama. You of
all people know that it doesn't have to be this way. You still have a
few hours to listen to your heart, and your own clear thinking. You
know that nothing good can come from sending more troops halfway
around the world to a place neither you nor they understand, to
achieve an objective that neither you nor they understand, in a
country that does not want us there. You can feel it in your
bones.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I know you know that there are LESS than
a hundred al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan! A hundred thousand troops
trying to crush a hundred guys living in caves? Are you serious? Have
you drunk Bush's Kool-Aid? I refuse to believe it.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Your potential decision to expand the war
(while saying that you're doing it so you can "end the war")
will do more to set your legacy in stone than any of the great things
you've said and done in your first year. One more throwing a bone from
you to the Republicans and the coalition of the hopeful and the
hopeless may be gone -- and this nation will be back in the hands of
the haters quicker than you can shout "tea bag!"<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your
corporate backers are going to abandon you as soon as it is clear you
are a one-term president and that the nation will be safely back in
the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. That could be
Wednesday morning.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>We the people still love you. We the
people still have a sliver of hope. But we the people can't take it
anymore. We can't take your caving in, over and over, when we elected
you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there and get the job
done. What part of "landslide victory" don't you
understand?<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Don't be deceived into thinking that
sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or
earn you the respect of the haters. They will not stop until this
country is torn asunder and every last dollar is extracted from the
poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million troops over there
and the crazy Right still wouldn't be happy. You would still be the
victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television because
no matter what you do, you can't change the one thing about yourself
that sends them over the edge.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The haters were not the ones who elected
you, and they can't be won over by abandoning the rest of us.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>President Obama, it's time to come home.
Ask your neighbors in Chicago and the parents of the young men and
women doing the fighting and dying if they want more billions and more
troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, "No, we
don't need health care, we don't need jobs, we don't need homes. You
go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and
daughters overseas, 'cause we don't need them, either."<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do?
What would your grandmother do? Not send more poor people to kill
other poor people who pose no threat to them, that's what they'd do.
Not spend billions and trillions to wage war while American children
are sleeping on the streets and standing in bread lines.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>All of us that voted and prayed for you
and cried the night of your victory have endured an Orwellian hell of
eight years of crimes committed in our name: torture, rendition,
suspension of the bill of rights, invading nations who had not
attacked us, blowing up neighborhoods that Saddam "might" be
in (but never was), slaughtering wedding parties in Afghanistan. We
watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were slaughtered
and tens of thousands of our brave young men and women were killed,
maimed, or endured mental anguish -- the full terror of which we
scarcely know.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>When we elected you we didn't expect
miracles. We didn't even expect much change. But we expected some. We
thought you would stop the madness. Stop the killing. Stop the insane
idea that men with guns can reorganize a nation that doesn't even
function as a nation and never, ever has.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Stop, stop, stop! For the sake of the
lives of young Americans and Afghan civilians, stop. For the sake of
your presidency, hope, and the future of our nation, stop. For God's
sake, stop.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tonight we still have hope.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tomorrow, we shall see. The ball is in
your court. You DON'T have to do this. You can be a profile in
courage. You can be your mother's son.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>We're counting on you.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Yours,<br>
Michael Moore<br>
<a href="mailto:mmflint@aol.com">MMFlint@aol.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">MichaelMoore.com</a><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>P.S. There's still time to have your
voice heard. Call the White House at 202-456-1111 or <a
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact">email the President</a>.<br>
</blockquote>
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<div>Bill Crosier<br>
paa@crosierbiomed.com 713-641-4941<br>
Progressive Action Alliance
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