[Peace-discuss] Fw: Help Kucinich Use War Powers Act to Force Afghanistan Debate

[Jenifer Cartwright]

--- On Tue, 3/2/10, Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Subject: Help Kucinich Use War Powers Act to Force Afghanistan Debate
To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 3:27 PM


    
        
    
    
        
        
        Dear Jenifer,

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.


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.  



Will you ask your Representative to become an original co-sponsor of Representative Kucinich's resolution?   



http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/kucinich 



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]   



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.  



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?  



http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/kucinich



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References: 



1. "Human rights commission in Afghanistan reports 28 civilians killed in Marjah offensive,"Associated Press, Wednesday, February 24th 2010

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/02/24/2010-02-24_human_rights_commission_in_afghanistan_reports_28_civilians_killed_in_marjah_off.html

2. "Operation Enduring Freedom - Coalition Deaths by Nationality," icasualties.org

http://icasualties.org/OEF/Nationality.aspx

3. "In Afghanistan, U.S. plans major push into Kandahar," Anne Kornblut and Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, Saturday, February 27, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022606008.html


        
        

        
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