Stop the Crimes of Your Government

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Stop US Occupations & Torture for Empire!

U.S. Out of Iraq & Afghanistan! No Wars on Iran, Pakistan, Gaza!

The world can’t wait!

 

Come OUT to the first national protest of the wars under President Obama 

THURSDAY March 19 leave work & school to PROTEST the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War. 

SATURDAY March 21 at the Pentagon.

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SIGN the Letter to the Anti-War Movement

“That which you do not resist and mobilize to stop you will learn – or be forced – to accept.” From the Call to Drive out the Bush Regime, 2005 Barack Obama is sending a surge of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. An antiwar movement that does not move immediately to oppose the Obama doctrine of shifting the central front of the war on terror to Afghanistan, no longer deserves to be called an anti-war movement. Millions of people voted for Obama because they thought he would end the war. Yet Obama filled his cabinet with Hillary “Obliterate Iran” Clinton, Robert Gates, James Jones and Susan Rice (“a kettle of hawks,” said Jeremy Scahill). He is not only continuing an unjust war by leaving 80,000 troops and 17 permanent bases in Iraq, and all over the region, including nuclear carrier-led task forces with enough firepower to "annihilate" any country in the region, but Obama is enlisting many progressive sections of society to support and be complicit in waging a spreading war for U.S. hegemony and imperialist expansion known as the “war on terror.” The election of the first Black president is effectively re-branding preemptive and illegal wars of aggression to make us feel good about them. Massive anti-war sentiment and action is already being transformed into flag-waving patriotism, passivity and capitulation in the face of horrors. The U.S. military, stretched thin and full of discontent after six years of carnage in Iraq, is now being replenished. Military recruiters are targeting Black and Latino youth, telling them if they sign up now they’ll be fighting for Obama. Their lives will be expended as cannon fodder in a brutal war of occupation that is not in their interests. The U.S. war on Afghanistan is an unjust war of aggression—the supreme war crime. The Bush regime occupied Afghanistan and drove out the Taliban regime, not to bring democracy and liberation to the Afghan people, but to control Afghanistan and spread the U.S.empire, with the goal of permanent domination of the Middle East. The “war on terror” begun after 9/11 by the U.S. was not just a campaign against the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Osama bin Laden, but a broad, global war to continue the U.S. position as unchallenged global superpower. This is not a war to free people from warlords of Islamic fundamentalism, a movement the U.S. funded and armed, and ironically, spread, when it was aligned with the US against the Soviet Union in the 1970’s. The war in Afghanistan is and will be fought the same way the war in Iraq is being fought. Most of the people killed are civilians, with the U.S. justifying collateral damage and collective punishment, secret prisons, denial of due process and torture. It is wrong, unjust, illegitimate and immoral. And it won’t be otherwise, no matter who is president. There is no such thing as a “good” war on terror. The U.S. occupiers consider any large gathering of Afghans inherently hostile, hence the repeated bombings of wedding parties. Even the U.S. puppet, Hamid Karzai, is warning the U.S. to stop killing civilians. And it is NOT a war to free women. According to afghan-web.com/woman/, after 7 years of US occupation: • Every 30 minutes, an Afghan woman dies during childbirth • 87 percent of Afghan women are illiterate • 30 percent of girls have access to education in Afghanistan • 1 in every 3 Afghan women experience physical, psychological or sexual violence • 44 years is the average life expectancy for women in Afghanistan • 70 to 80 percent of women face forced marriages in Afghanistan The deadly and self-perpetuating cycle between the terror directed at civilians by the Islamic fundamentalists fighting against the U.S. and the terror of the U.S. wars of aggression directed at civilians can only be stopped by the people of those countries, combined with the actions of people in this country who refuse to strengthen either side. We in this country, and those of us in this movement, have a choice. We can side with “our” government, with the “good war” fought in our names, and act like American lives are more important than anyone else’s lives. Or we can show the people living in the Middle East, and the world, that in the U.S. there is a difference between the people and their government, and that the people are taking responsibility to end an unjust war and the war crimes that have been carried out in our name. We can act like we care about the whole planet. The antiwar movement of the last several years which confined itself to lobbying and campaigning served to demobilize mass protest. Now this movement must shake off this passive complicity and act once again in a way that is so visible and powerful it can be seen all over the world, especially in the countries that have been targets of this aggression. An antiwar movement that does not have the principle and the conviction to oppose the crimes carried out by our government; that dodges the immediate escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and the threat of war on other places; that chooses to focus on “domestic issues” when people of the Middle East are counting on us, will commit unconscionable betrayal. An antiwar movement needs to show common cause with the people of the world and not common cause with war criminals. Too much is at stake for the progressive movement to consult with or sound like the generals or the Commander in Chief. Too much is at stake to “wait and see” whether this is all going in the direction Obama says it is. Visible action is urgently needed: Six Years of Illegitimate War – STOP the occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan! *Thursday March 19: First national protests of the war under the Obama presidency ~ everywhere *Saturday March 21: United protests at the Pentagon, San Francisco, Los Angeles. The USA PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, and Obama’s FISA Act must be repealed; the U.S. torture state must be dismantled, and secret rendition ended. Prosecute the war criminals of the Bush Regime! If we want to stop the continued horror of the largest imperialist power on earth dropping bombs, sending death squads and torturers anywhere with impunity – in our names -- the only way is to face up to reality, tell the truth, and get out to the people with the message that we must stop the crimes of our government.

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Number	Date	Name	Organization	Location	I am signing this letter because...
907	February 04, 2010	Jean Sommer	PAND(performers and artists for nuclear disarmament)	Brecksville, OH	I am disappointed in Our government's policies. I thought we had a champion of peace when Obama was elected but it has turned out to be more of the same. Unfortunately it seems he is beholden to war-mongering republicans and weapons manufacturers more than he is to the Nobel committee who awarded him the Peace prize.
906	January 05, 2010	E. Rune Lindgren	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL	The President of The United States of America; Barack Obama. has not followed up on principles he declared when running for the presidency.
905	December 29, 2009	David Van Datta		, OR	Power to the people!
904	December 27, 2009	Leslie Henderson	for truth	Revelstoke, BC	I believe that the truth shall prevail with a little help!!!
903	December 22, 2009	Johnny Jones, Jr.		Minneapolis, MN
902	December 22, 2009	Megan Rice	Nevada Desert Experience	Las Vegas, NV	The wisdom of the ancient culture and life-styles of Afghani Peoples tell us poignantly that they do not desire nor respect the imposition of US ways of behaving upon their sovereign lands, and that they have courage never to yield to the invaders . US troops are in no way prepared nor motivated to live and learn from the hospitality of their people and must humbly and wisely admit to failure and bow out asap. The social problems rampant in this country need to be seriously addressed. Afghanistan should be allowed to develp in accord with its own environment and harmony.
901	December 06, 2009	Nicholas Lamparter		, NC	I want all our soldiers to come home to their families and I want the money that will be ultimately wasted in Karzai's corruption to be used in improving the VA Medical capability and funding PTSD.
900	November 20, 2009	Jay Spencer		Cochranville, PA	Killing to maintain an empire is not what America should be about. After reading Mike Ruppert's book "Crossing the Rubicon," Webster Tarpley's "Synthetic Terror: Made in USA," and books on 9/11 by David Ray Griffin, this Vietnam-era vet knows that the "War on Terror" is just a cover story for corporate empire-building. Educate yourself and stop the killing now!
899	November 10, 2009	david hess	anti war society	iowa City, IA	i am against wars i am for life i know that any war accepts death as a necessary moral obligation to some larger cause to which i morally disagree i feel the same way about prison but i will stop here
898	November 07, 2009	phil rockey	green party	Oakdale, CA	war in not the answer--enough killing of humanity...
897	October 22, 2009	Kimberly Hillstrom		Wickliffe, OH	I am opposed to any escalation anywhere. We have lost enough. My son is an OIF vet. Two tours. He is so screwed up mentally from what he saw there. Afghanistan will wind up being as bad. We need to get our kids out. Period. I myself am a veteran. I have another kid in the Navy. She has been to the Gulf on one of those Aircraft Carriers. We need to stop the war mongering and get on with the peace mongering. We need to conduct honest and clear dialogue with the leaders of Afghanistan and show them that war is NEVER the answer. I didn't vote for Obama cause I had a feeling he would be Bush lite. He has not disappointed me. The people in that part of the world need to be more proactive in their own security. We need to get a diplomat, not a military man like McChrystal (liar, recall Pat Tillman) who just wants to up the ante. Bring em home.
896	October 21, 2009	Thomas G. Hannon		Bradenton, FL	As a wounded Korean War veteran, I directly understand the futility of war. The Bush Administration must be held responsible for torture and other crimes. Pres.Obama must get the US out of the historical quagmire in Afghanastan
895	October 20, 2009	DAVID PATRIOT HARKIN	WORLDCANTWAIT	OAK PARK , IL	OUR GOVERNMENT LIDED TO US AND SHOULD GIVE US RESON WAHY THEY LIED TO US. AND NOT JUST BECAUSE george bush is on drugs thank you
894	October 20, 2009	DAVID PATRIOT HARKIN	WORLDCANTWAIT	OAK PARK , IL	OUR GOVERNMENT LIDED TO US AND SHOULD GIVE US RESON WAHY THEY LIED TO US. AND NOT JUST BECAUSE george bush is on drugs thank you
893	October 18, 2009	william murphy		stevensville, PA	As long as we have a offensive military they will people in power wanting to use them. Not for right, not for good, but for their own objectives. Same as the begaining of time the rich the powerful stand on the backs of the poor who buy their product and fight their wars. The fields of the world have always been littered with the bodies of the poor. My objectives are; 1) end the militatry and it's industrial system 2) end corperate sponsership of our government 3) allow us to be free What are you going to do about the USA
892	October 13, 2009	Aisha Jackson Muhammad	Positivity Productions	Bladensburg, MD	I campaigned and really rallied to register voters for this President! Whom now I find is of the same stuff as all the others. I am so dissappointed in his behavior and policies! He should be called the "GREAT DECEIVER"! He sure fooled me!
891	October 07, 2009	Jenefer Ellingston	Green Party	Washington, DC	every voice against the US military empire weighs in the balance. It will take a generation (at least) to restore our Constitution and regain the "practice" of Democracy - long lost. So far, we are slipping further backwards. JE
890	October 01, 2009	John Murphy	N/A	Coatesville, PA
889	October 01, 2009	Thomas Cincotta	Political Research Associates	Somerville, MA	The illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost too many lives and valuable resources. It's time to end these wars and bring the troops home.
888	October 01, 2009	Dennis Ingham		Marenisco, MI
887	September 30, 2009	Bill Clark	self interest	apple valley, CA	I believe in change
886	September 30, 2009	Kristina McCarthy	The World Can't Wait/We Are Not Your Soldiers	Fort Walton Beach, FL	I am genuinely concerned about the surge in recruitment of our youth into the armed forces. My younger brother is a PROUD member of the United States Marine Core and I am scared for him and our family every day he is serving. I want the recruitment to stop. I want the war to stop. I want the death to stop.
885	September 15, 2009	Fran Fitzgerald	S. Country Peace Group	Mastie Bch, NY
884	September 09, 2009	Steven Miller		Greer, SC	LOve one another as I have loved you.
883	September 06, 2009	Danny Dyche		Hillsboro, OR

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