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Afghan Women Say NO to the Surge—Stand with Them:

Sign this petition and stand in solidarity with the women of Afghanistan as they speak out against the surge.

“To fight is not the solution. We have a mouth and a brain, we should talk.” --Dr. H.B. Ghazanfar, Women’s Affairs Minister (Translated by Fawzia Habibi, Director of Coordination & International Relations for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs)

The petition has already been signed by:

Uzma Noorani	Pakistan	Human Rights Commission in Pakistan
Baela Raza Jamil	Pakistan	ITA Public Trust
Dr. K. Lalita	India	Chair, Yugantar NGO
Dr. Kawsar Salehi	Afghanistan	MOPH
Surya Parlika	Afghanistan	Afghan Women’s Network
Najia Zewari	Afghanistan	Gender & Justice Officer, UNIFEM
Noojris Nehan	Afghanistan
Dr. Alema	Afghanistan	Afghan Women’s Network
Zoya Hassan	India	Professor, Center for Political Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University
Dr. Roshanak Wardak	Afghanistan	Gynecologist and Member of Parliament
Leeda Yqoobi	Afghanistan	Deputy Director, Afghan Women’s Network
Sheila Samimi	Afghanistan	Advocacy Director, Afghan Women’s Network
Wazhma Karzai	Afghanistan	Sister-in-Law of the President

President Obama,

We, the women of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the United States, implore you to refrain from sending more United States military forces to Afghanistan.

We encourage you to work quickly for a political solution in Afghanistan that will lead to a reconciliation process in which women will fully participate and a withdrawal of foreign military forces.

Sending more military forces will only increase the violence and will do further harm to women in children. Instead, the funds should be redirected to improving the health, education and welfare of the Afghan people.

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Number	Date	Name	Location	Add your message for Congress
2265	February 04, 2010	Kathleen McInerney	, IL, US
2264	February 04, 2010	Anonymous	, CA, US
2263	January 26, 2010	Delia Flanagan	, MA, US	We are the generation for peace. Please please please, let's make peace possible.
2262	January 21, 2010	Anonymous	, KS, US
2261	January 19, 2010	Anonymous	, NC, US	Use your influence to reduce US military spending to less than 10% from its current 50% of our tax dollars/budget. Use our tax dollars to ensure the well-being of all people, to promote peace by ensuring food, clothing, shelter, education, healthcare, and livelihood to all people.
2260	January 19, 2010	Stella Corona	, HI, US	Instead of sending troops, send engineers, help them to rebuild what we have destroyed. They deserve our support for a better future, after surviving our destruction for close to a decade. We need to teach the women how to take care of them selves and stand on their own, we need to teach the children to read, and we need to teach the men respect both women and men equally.
2259	January 08, 2010	Marna Wolak	, CA, US	Instead of increasing military funding, we should be helping to rebuild schools, roads, homes, etc. Only through education will there be peace. Fight terror with books, not bombs. Educated women and children will be less likely to turn to terror.
2258	January 05, 2010	Nancy Walker	, CA, US	Killing of other humans in war is barbaric! I'm ashamed of my country engaging in this action. Just what in the hell are we defending?
2257	January 01, 2010	Ayisha Hameed	, GB	Lets stand together and make a change
2256	December 30, 2009	Debra Di Piazza	, WA, US	Recent events show that so-called "targeted attacks" mainly affect women and children in Afghanistan, and only create greater animosity against the United States and her allies. It's time to end our failing military engagement in Afghanistan and put political and economic pressure on the Karzai government to end poverty, corruption, and the oppression of women and religious minorities. Let's put the money we would spend on war into a real reconstruction effort, one that will greatly improve the lives of the people there.
2255	December 30, 2009	Marita Engström	, SE
2254	December 28, 2009	molly Gibbs	, WA, US	Stop genocide in Palestine by halting all corporate benefits from sales of weapons, including Caterpillar tanks to Israel. Hold Israel accountable. Stop the death and begin rebuilding, by giving Palestinians funds for schools, homes. NOW. Turn war profits into a hopeful future for PEOPLE who have suffered because of our actions.
2253	December 27, 2009	Anonymous	, ON, CA	Women are the future, please help them, not hurt them.
2252	December 27, 2009	pam edwards	, CA, US	Please end all military aggression in the name of oil and United States interests.
2251	December 26, 2009	Marilyn Hoff	, NM, US
2250	December 25, 2009	cheryl hosseinpour	, KY, US	peace not war
2249	December 24, 2009	Jeanne Green	, NM, USA
2248	December 22, 2009	Hannah Balaban	, ND, US
2247	December 21, 2009	Teresa Kelly	, MI, US	Come to Detroit and see the human suffering that is the local cost of this immoral war.
2246	December 21, 2009	Amanda Hughes	, MI, US
2245	December 17, 2009	Nancy Roffey	, OH, US	Can you learn nothing from history? Neither the Assyrians, Alexander of Macedonia, the British, nor the Russians have conquered and occupied these people....the poorest in the world, except the new corrupt and wealthy we have created. I have lived there, corrupt then, corrupt now. The Russians killed 1 million Afghans...for what?
2244	December 15, 2009	John Inderdohnen	, NY, US	Announcing a surge and then attempting to placate that with a timetable for withdrawal is the worst sort of having your cake and eating it too mentality.
2243	December 12, 2009	Joanne Ehret	, MA, US
2242	December 12, 2009	monique hitzman	, CA, US	WE need health Care not Warfare!
2241	December 11, 2009	Elllen Hammond	, OR, US	President Obama: I know you said during the campaign that you would send more troops to Afghanistan but do you know why we're in Afghanistan? The talaban was in Texas in the late 1999 or in 2000 & Bush told them they wanted a pipe line from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to the ocean so their boats could get the oil. We are letting our precious soldiers die for the oil barons to get more oil. Please don't let this happen.Get us out now. Thanks gramma

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