[Peace-discuss] AWARE in News-Gazette

[Ricky Baldwin]

I saw this excellent letter today and it made me so
happy!

Thanks, Peggy!  Well done!
Ricky

--- Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com> wrote:

> Support call for more protests of Iraq war
> 
> Saturday July 21, 2007
> 
> I support Ed Rawdin's call in his recent letter to
> bring back anti-war  
> protests. The human cost of the war in Iraq
> continues to grow.
> 
> Nearly 3,600 U.S. troops have died since our
> unwarranted invasion of  
> Iraq in March 2003. Six hundred have died since the
> troop surge.  
> Conservative estimates of Iraqi civilian and
> military deaths since our  
> invasion are at an alarming 71,000. The financial
> costs of the war are  
> equally staggering – $135 billion in this fiscal
> year alone.
> 
> Iraqis share our desire to bring our troops home. In
> a poll conducted  
> by the BBC and other news organizations this past
> spring, only 22  
> percent of Iraqis support the presence of coalition
> troops in Iraq.  
> This figure is down from 32 percent in 2005.
> 
> Twenty-one percent of those polled said the presence
> of U.S. forces in  
> Iraq improves security. Sixty-nine percent believe
> security is worse as  
> a result of our presence.
> 
> I encourage Rawdin and others to join the anti-war
> demonstrations  
> coordinated by the local organization AWARE
> (Anti-War, Anti-Racism  
> Effort) on the first Saturday of each month from 2
> to 4 p.m. on the  
> corner of Neil and Main streets in downtown
> Champaign.
> 
> Many youths and adults attend these monthly
> demonstrations. Many more  
> indicate their support for our efforts by "honking
> for peace" as they  
> drive by.
> 
> Each of us can voice our opposition to the war in
> Iraq by contacting  
> our elected officials and by standing with others in
> protest to say,  
> "We want our troops to come home. End the war now."
> 
> PEGGY PATTEN
> 
> Urbana
>   Find this article at:
>    
>
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2007/07/21/
> 
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