[Peace-discuss] Dear Britain: "Get Out of Afghanistan, So We Can Get Out"

[Robert Naiman]

Gordon Brown faces fresh questions over the war in Afghanistan at this
month's Labour party conference, with grassroots activists circulating
a motion demanding that troops be withdrawn, the Guardian reports. I'd
give anything to address this conference. I'd wait until people gave
speeches arguing that Britain had to keep its troops in Afghanistan
out of friendship with the United States. Then I'd ask to be
recognized, and I'd say,

"As an American, I thank the honorable gentlemen and ladies for their
kind words of friendship towards the people of the United States. I
assure you, as you know very well, that the feelings are reciprocated.
But I beg you, in the name of humanity: show your love differently
than by continuing to support this war...the presence of British
military forces in Afghanistan is being used to justify the presence
of American military forces in Afghanistan...If you love America, if
you love Americans, show your love by passing this resolution put
forward by the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy demanding the
withdrawal of British troops of Afghanistan. Help America. Help
America to get its own troops out of Afghanistan. Get out of
Afghanistan, so we can get out."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/dear-britain-get-out-of-a_b_278336.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/6/777781/-Dear-Britain:-Get-Out-of-Afghanistan,-So-We-Can-Get-Out

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/323

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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