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End the wrongful and unnecessary occupations of Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq!

Join Tom Hayden and peace activists around the world in demanding President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stop the needless killing and occupation of Muslim lands — which is against our moral, economic and national interest.
Sign this petition below, and we will add the signatures to the movement-wide petition as well as deliver this powerful message to their offices.

To President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid
 
We, the undersigned peace and justice leaders, believe that the American military interventions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are deepening quagmires that threaten a Long War without end.

At the current rate of American deaths in Afghanistan, over 1,000 additional American soldiers will be killed in the next two years of “hard fighting” predicted by the Pentagon as the next phase of a ten year occupation. Another $130 billion for Afghanistan and Iraq now is being rushed through a sleeping Congress. An escalation of even more troops is pending.

Now is the time for an exit strategy to end these wars. The government of warlords, drug lords, and landlords we prop up in Kabul is losing more legitimacy by the day. A majority of Americans – including 70 percent from the majority party – now consider Afghanistan a mistake. Leading national security experts even deny that it’s a necessary war.

If we do not decide to disengage at once, our dreams of domestic reform will be squandered by years of war budgets. Our dreams of clean energy will be buried in wars over oil and pipelines. The global good will extended to our new President will be jeopardized.

We understand how difficult it is to reverse a mistaken course. But that is the leadership we need, not one that continually escalates in order not to lose. We have been there.

- Our government should adopt an exit strategy from Afghanistan based on all-party talks, regional diplomacy, unconditional humanitarian aid, and timelines for the near-term withdrawal of American and NATO combat troops.

- The aerial bombardments of Afghan and Pakistan villages, like burning down haystacks to find terrorist needles, should end.

- Military spending should be reversed in Afghanistan to focus on food, medicine, shelter, the socio-economic needs of the poor, and the dignity of women and children.

- President Obama should keep his pledge to withdraw all troops from Iraq by 2011, and prevent American interference in the forthcoming Iraqi elections.

- The President should oppose any Israeli attack on Iran, which will only inflame the regional and global conflict.

Much as we were inspired by Barack Obama’s election, we will not be taken for granted by the President and the Congressional majority. The historic victories in 2006 and 2008 were fueled by popular enthusiasm and unprecedented voter turnouts that cannot be reignited by e-mail solicitations. A growing disenchantment with a costly quagmire will threaten all the hopes of 2008. Everything is related now: we cannot afford national health care, housing, and clean energy while spending billions on quagmires across several continents.

We are prepared to create a storm of protest in Congressional districts and close Senate races. We will form alliances with all those whose hope for health, energy and economic reform are diminished by these wars. We will defend dissent in the armed forces and protect our children from the snares of military recruiters. We will reach out to strengthen a global peace movement, especially in NATO countries.

History shows that terrorist threats can come from German cities, African villages, and even homegrown American cells, not simply the caves of Pakistan. 

Our security needs cannot be served by provoking the growing hatred of America caused by repeated invasions of foreign lands. We are human beings who refuse to be defined in the world as mindless military drones and Predators.

TOM HAYDEN
ARIEL DORFMAN, Author, Duke University
RABBI STEVEN B. JACOBS, Progressive Faith Foundation
REV. GEORGE REGAS, pastor emeritus, All-Saints Episcopal Church
REV. ED BACON, Pastor, All-Saints Episcopal Church
REV. PETER LAARMAN, Progressive Christians United
DR. NAZIR KHAJA, President, Islamic Information Service
REV. JOHN B. COBB, Claremont Theology School
REV. GEORGE HUNSINGER, Princeton Theology Seminary
REV. JAMES CONN, Director, New Ministries, United Methodist Church
RABBI HAIM DOV BELIAK, Hamifgash
REV. JANET EOLLERY MCKEITHEN, Westside Interfaith Coalition
STEPHEN ROHDE, president, Inter-faith Communities for Peace and Justice, Los Angeles
SENATOR JOHN BURTON, chairman, California Democratic Party
KAREN BERNAL, chair, Progressive Caucus, California Democratic Party
DANIEL ELLSBERG
SUSIE SHANNON, Executive Board Member, California Democratic Party
RAY MCGOVERN, CIA [ret.]
PAUL HAGGIS, film director
SONALI KOHATKAR, Co-director, Afghan Women's Mission
MICHAEL RATNER, President, Center for Constitutional Rights
JODIE EVANS, co-founder, CODE PINK
CODE PINK
LESLIE CAGAN, co-founder, United for Peace and Justice
RUSTI EISENBERG, United for Peace and Justice
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE [UFPJ]
KEVIN MARTIN, PEACE ACTION, Washington
MICHAEL MCPHEARSON, Veterans for Peace
ROBERT NAIMAN, policy director, JUST FOREIGN POLICY
STAUGHTON LYND, historian
VAN GOSSE, co-founder, Historians Against the War
MARC BECKER, co-chair, Historians Against the War
MICHAEL ALBERT, Znet
BILL FLETCHER, Jr., executive director, Black Commentator, co-founder Progressives for Obama
CARL DAVIDSON, webmaster, PROGRESSIVES FOR OBAMA
RICHARD FALK, professor, Princeton University, United Nations rapporteur
LEONARD WEINGLASS, human rights attorney
MATTHEW EVANGELISTA, chair, Department of Government, Cornell University
STANLEY ARONOWITZ, graduate center, City University of New York
JOE FEAGAN, professor, Texas A&M University
ROBERT GREENWALD, Brave New Films
GAEL MURPHY, Code Pink, Washington
TIM CARPENTER, Progressive Democrats of America [PDA]
NORMAN BIRNBAUM
DAVID FENTON

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Number	Date	Name	Location	Add your message
7680	January 28, 2010	Anonymous	, WA, US	I have hope in the fact that the man who has my heart and his battalion will not have to suffer the same fate as so many of their brothers in arms. That the lives that have been lost in the last eight years have not been in vain! I would feel safer knowing that women, children and families in the Middle East are safe, as well. That they are given the same respect as I am. Trying to blow up a threat there does not stop it here. It does not stop it anywhere when we are afraid. War is not the answer and it never was.
7679	January 19, 2010	Darla McClain	, NY, US
7678	January 09, 2010	Oskar Klaus Obrist Zuñiga	, CL
7677	January 09, 2010	Oskar Klaus Obrist Zuñiga	, CL
7676	January 08, 2010	Cheryl Buswell	, MI, US
7675	January 07, 2010	karin mak	, CA, US
7674	January 04, 2010	Katherine Reed Piana	, WA, US
7673	January 01, 2010	James Allison	, IN, US
7672	December 25, 2009	Anonymous	, MO, US	The love of my life is going to be deployed to Afghanistan. I don't know what I'll do if I lose him. We deserve a chance to get old together. Thank you
7671	December 14, 2009	Yasseman Tourang	, SE
7670	December 13, 2009	Donna Crary`	, ME, US
7669	December 10, 2009	Anonymous	, NM, US	Count against your policies a West Point graduate, a woman, a mother with a son in the Army, a human being who sees the continued self-destruction on our planet due to fear and greed. I don't have fancy rhetoric. I know what happens in the sallyports of West Point. There is no honor in perpetuating war.
7668	December 10, 2009	Joseph Rogers	, CA, US	There is no winning strategy. There is no road to peace through violence. There is no hope in war.
7667	December 10, 2009	Anonymous	, MN, US
7666	December 08, 2009	Ahjahta McDuffie	, NJ, US	=D
7665	December 08, 2009	Jennifer Regan	, CA, US
7664	December 07, 2009	Barbara Tantanella	, MN, US	Please reconsider your plan for Afghanistan. Our soldiers need to come home, the home place is in need of help, we must see that our own people are more important than war lords. Mr. Obama, show us what you are truly made of.
7663	December 07, 2009	Alison Medlar	, MA, US
7662	December 07, 2009	Anonymous	, CA, US	I am ashamed to call myself an American. How many more lives need to be lost before we stop this endless war? STOP THE ESCALATION NOW AND END THE WAR!!!!
7661	December 06, 2009	Ralph Penunuri	, OR, US	I know that the shadow government Ike warned us about and Kennedy lost his life and developing policies to now have Obama and the country hostage. This peoples' surge demands a an end to the insideous oil empire's war economy and deception. "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." - Ralph Penunuri, Corvallis, Oregon
7660	December 05, 2009	Joanne Ferguson	, OH, US
7659	December 05, 2009	Linda Sleffel	, OH, US	I wear a button everywhere I go. It is black with a silver peace symbol. It says "WAR IS TERRORISM TOO." Enough! We must withdraw from Afghanistan, not escalate this dumb war.
7658	December 05, 2009	Harold Greenberg	, NY, US
7657	December 05, 2009	Janet Contursi	, MN, US	Stop this senseless war!
7656	December 05, 2009	Anonymous	, MD, US	alot of the pride for my country that I felt restored with the the election of President Obaba is rapidly dissappearing again.

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