[Peace-discuss] Fw: Tell your senators: "No more funding for military occupations!"

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From: U.S. Labor Against the War 
To: unionyes at ameritech.net 
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:12 PM
Subject: Tell your senators: "No more funding for military occupations!"


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            Dear David

            The Obama Administration asked Congress for another $83.4 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.*   The House approved the funding with only 60 Representatives voting against it.  The election of Barack Obama was a mandate for peace and a new direction for foreign policy, not for an expansion of military occupation and conflict.  We need to build more pressure for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 


            The appropriation now goes to the Senate for a vote.  

            Contact your Senators' office today.  Ask for the foreign policy director. Tell them you want your Senator to oppose the supplemental war funding, and support amendments that:

            1. Provide firm timelines for bringing troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq

            2. Promote Afghan- and Iraqi-led aid and development while increasing funding for refugees 

            3. Support women's rights




            To reach the Washington switchboard, 

            call this toll-free number: 

            1-800-517-5696 

            or call the switchboard directly at 

            202-224-3121.




            PS: Please call now to reach your senators before the Memorial Day recess.  It will only take 2 minutes. 

            * You can find out more about the War Supplemental bill here (an analysis from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation) and here.  

            Thank you for all you do for peace and justice.


                  'America went to war against Iraq based on a lie.' 



                  We were told back in 2002 that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. 


                  The previous administration even pursued torture to try to extract false confessions in order to justify the war. 


                  It is time to tell the truth. 

                    a.. The truth is we should not have prosecuted a war against the Iraqi people. 
                    b.. The truth is the Democratic Senate could have stopped the Iraq war in 2002. 
                    c.. The truth is we Democrats were given control of Congress in 2006 to end the war. 
                    d.. The truth is this bill continues a disastrous war, which has cost the lives of thousands of our soldiers. 
                    e.. The truth is the occupation has fueled the insurgency. 
                    f.. The truth is the Iraq war will cost the American and the Iraqi people trillions of dollars and as many as a million innocent Iraqis have lost their lives as a result of this war. 


                  'Don't tell the American people that you are ending the war by continuing to fund the war. 


                  Don't tell the American people that the war will end when their plans leave 50,000 troops in Iraq. 

                  Don't tell the American people that the way out of Afghanistan is to escalate our presence.


                  'Get out of Iraq. Get out Afghanistan. Come home America.'

                    Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), speaking on the supplemental appropriations bill that would continue to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

                    May 14, 2009
                 





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