<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/2/10, Just Foreign Policy <i><info@justforeignpolicy.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Just Foreign Policy <info@justforeignpolicy.org><br>Subject: Help Kucinich Use War Powers Act to Force Afghanistan Debate<br>To: jencart13@yahoo.com<br>Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 3:27 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1202473390">
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<p style="margin-top:0em;"><b>Ask your Representative to become an original co-sponsor of Rep. Kucinich's resolution establishing a timeline for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.</b></p>
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<p>This week, Representative Kucinich plans to introduce a privileged resolution invoking the War Powers Act to force the President to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year. Because it will be a privileged resolution, Congress will be forced to debate the issue of the open-ended U.S. war in and occupation of Afghanistan. <br>
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<b>Will you ask your Representative to become an original co-sponsor of Representative Kucinich's resolution? </b> <br>
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U.S. soldiers and Afghan civilians continue to die needless deaths in Afghanistan because of the failure of Congress to act to bring the war in Afghanistan towards a close, or even to debate it. On February 24, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said it had confirmed 28 civilian deaths from the U.S.-led assault on the Afghan village of Marjah,[1] a town of some 80,000 people. At least six U.S. soldiers have been killed in the offensive.[2] But the assault on Marjah is merely a "prelude" to the planned U.S.-led assault on the Afghan city of Kandahar, ten times the size of Marjah, the Washington Post reports. [3] <br>
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It is virtually certain that the Kandahar offensive will result in many more American and Afghan deaths -- deaths that could be avoided if the U.S. would adopt a political strategy to end the war, instead of the current military escalation. <br>
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<b>The next step towards ending the war is to force a real debate in Congress. Will you join us in supporting Representative Kucinich's effort to force a debate by asking your Representative to become an original co-sponsor of Rep. Kucinich's resolution? </b><br>
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1. "Human rights commission in Afghanistan reports 28 civilians killed in Marjah offensive,"Associated Press, Wednesday, February 24th 2010<br>
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2. "Operation Enduring Freedom - Coalition Deaths by Nationality," icasualties.org<br>
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3. "In Afghanistan, U.S. plans major push into Kandahar," Anne Kornblut and Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, Saturday, February 27, 2010<br>
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