[Peace-discuss] WILL AM 580 Public Square

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

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  On this anniversary date we must face the reality of what we have done 
these past four years. We have a civic responsibility to ask ourselves? 
How much more? How much longer? How much safer is the world? How much 
longer can we continue with the same policy in the war on terrorism?

  I proclaim: Not One More Year.

  Now is a time for serious reflection. Ask yourself:

  Are you willing to have our nation continue to sacrifice the lives of 
five thousand, eight thousand, or more of our servicemen and women in 
Iraq? Are you willing to see the number of injured climb to sixty 
thousand, eighty thousand or more? Are you comfortable accepting the 
increasing deaths and causalities of Iraqi people as they climb to 
600,000, 800,000 or a million? Are you willing to jeopardize the future 
solvency of our national treasury to the tune of $500 billion, $1 
trillion dollars? How much more of any aspect of this occupation are 
you willing to support as you witness the results of the past four 
years?

  I proclaim, Not One More Year!

  Is this an endless war our country has embarked upon? Does this 
approach make sense to anyone anymore? Are we blind to the effect we 
are having in the world?

  As the coalition of the willing disintegrates and the U.S. finds 
itself standing alone in the world, is it not clearly time for a new 
approach to engaging in the world?                       
  Nation building, military intervention, and unilateralism have failed 
to achieve our national interests and to make the world safer.

  Imagine for a moment if four years ago we had taken a different 
course, a course of coalition building, working closely and in harmony 
with all our allies, talking to instead of threatening our perceived 
enemies, embracing rather than rejecting international law and 
treaties, respecting and advancing the diplomacy of the United Nations, 
and finally building upon the goodwill of the world after 9/11 by 
remaining focused on the real terrorist threat to the world? Al Queada 
and Osama Bin Laden.

  Can we begin down a new path? What better way than for each person on 
Monday, March 19, 2007 to call or write to his or her representative or 
senator demanding an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

  On this fourth anniversary, I proclaim: Bring the Troops Home Now- Let 
This Be the Last Year of the Occupation of Iraq

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