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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
7735	February 17, 2011	Helen Ranscombe	, , GB
7734	January 25, 2011	Dorothy Gale	, DE, US	Please stop the war right now - I want to live in a peaceful world!
7733	January 06, 2011	Virginia Smith	, FL, US	EARN THE NOBEL PRIZE OR RETURN IT
7732	December 17, 2010	nancy petersen	, CA, AF	I not only voted for Pres Obama, I am an avid believer in hi m and his abilities for this country. His promise to end the war should be upheld. Innocent US troops as well as foreigners are being abused, tormented and killed. Please, end this senseless war! It takes a president to declare was, but it takes a HERO to admit a mistake!!
7731	September 11, 2010	Sophia Cossio	, CA, US
7730	August 03, 2010	Patty Hogan	, TX, US	Stop spending, start dropping pet projects that Congress has been handing out. Doing this Congress is selling us out
7729	August 03, 2010	Patty Hogan	, TX, US	Stop spending, start dropping pet projects that Congress has been handing out. Doing this Congress is selling us out
7728	July 30, 2010	Barbara Chinitz	, NY, US
7727	July 30, 2010	Beth Graham	, VA, US
7726	July 29, 2010	Amelia Bendle	, TX, US
7725	July 27, 2010	Brooke McGowen	, NY, US	We are dependent on Wikileaks for reliable factual information about the war we finance out of our empty pockets. We demand more transparency, as promised in your campaign. We demand accountability for the incompetent blunders of the military. And one more question, why are we in Afghanistan to begin with? Bin Laden is a worn-out excuse. Why don't we admit that it's about energy and resources, and stop talking about ideology. Is the American people so stupid that they can't be told the truth?
7724	July 27, 2010	Nancy Seats	, MO, United States	Stop the funding of these wars now and get out of the countries that don't want us there. We have created more terrorists since the illegal invasion of Iraq than there ever would have been. Our country is being destroyed by these wars.
7723	July 27, 2010	Nina Douglass	, MA, US	As the mother of a US Marine Corps sergeant and Iraq War veteran, I am sickened that he and other troops continue to be fodder in another unwinnable, immoral, indefensible war. Bring them home now, and give them the care and support they deserve!
7722	July 27, 2010	Ronald Morgan	, CA, US	Pressure to continue the war in Afganistan must be resisted by President Obama or his election victory will have been a defrauding of those who voted for him. He was elected to stop the war.
7721	July 27, 2010	John Battin	, NY, US	Dollars for Health, Education and Welfare of the United States people. Not for war.
7720	July 26, 2010	sharon woods	, WV, US
7719	July 26, 2010	Deborah Potter	, VA, US
7718	July 26, 2010	Robert Cadman	, CA, US
7717	July 26, 2010	Friend Lesko	, NY, US	We cannot "win" the war in Afghanistan and we are wasting trillions of dollars, enriching security firms, and supporting warlords, while killing civilians and US military troops. It is a despicable and unjustifiable use of US 'might.'
7716	July 26, 2010	Joseph Rykiel	, DE, US	Do the Right Thing!
7715	July 26, 2010	Joan Hangarter	, CA, USA	Just bring our troops home and start rebuilding our own infrastructures before we end up the most hated country on the planet
7714	July 26, 2010	Anonymous	, CA, US	This is an immoral war and is Beneath us as a People. If you were all as sick of war as I am, you would be as ashamed as I am about this travesty. Strut your stuff and stand up for what it right and just!
7713	July 26, 2010	Anonymous	, NC, US	We're not waging a "war on terriorism" These wars are not about terrorism -- it about oil and the Afghanistan pipeline. The war racket is bankrupting our country and killing innocent people for no reason other than greed. These occupations must end!
7712	July 26, 2010	Karen Stein	, RI, United States	The costs of this useless and appalling war will derail the social reforms we hoped for when we elected Pres. Obama. American security depends on decent health care for all, not on bombs and drones!
7711	July 26, 2010	dick wood	, CA, usa	I've refrained from being actively against the Afghanistan war, hoping that President Obama's military plan would prevent the anti-feminist Taliban from taking over. The information that has been leaked about that war makes it clear that the U.S. cannot win and must get out Just do it.

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