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Gold Star Families for Peace

*UPDATE*

*We have gotten feedback asking us to start the sit in on the Saturday 4th and end on the 9th when congress returns

We want our country back...and the Troops Home from Iraq.

Please join Cindy Sheehan and Gold Star Families for Peace at a Sit In at the White House. Nov.6th-8th

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10 more of our kids were killed yesterday in the “War on Terror”.
69 of our kids have been killed this month in the “War on Terror”.

4 of our kids per day are now losing their lives in the “War on Terror”.

10 more Gold Star Families have been created yesterday in the “War on Terror”.

69 more Gold Star Families suffer the ultimate loss this month in the “War on Terror”.

Chances are good 4 more kids will die today in the “War on Terror”.

On average 100 innocent Iraqi’s are being killed a day in the “War on Terror”.

655,000 Iraqi’s, Men, Women and Children have been killed in the “War on Terror”.

20,687 of our kids wounded, maimed in the “War on Terror”.

3019 total coalition troops dead in the “War on Terror”.

140,000 of our kids are still in harms way in Iraq in the “War on Terror”.

140,000 military families live daily on pins and needles in the “War on Terror”.

10 seconds were just spent on my local FOX affiliate about the “War on Terror”.

1 second for each life lost yesterday in the “War on Terror”.

How many gallons of blood have been spilled in the “War on Terror”.

Funny……I can’t tell who the blood in the streets of Baghdad belongs too. All looks the same.

Dede

Gold Star Families for Peace

Dark Days for our Country by Amy Branham

Yesterday our President signed The Military Commissions Act. The signing of this Bill into law makes it possible for George W. Bush to try military prisoners without regard to the Geneva Conventions and for him to have the power to decide who is a terrorist and what interrogation techniques can be used.


In addition, it takes away the right of habeas corpus, a law that has been in place in this country for over 200 years that allows prisoners to protest their detention. They can be held indefinitely without charge or trial.


I can’t help but wonder, who will GBW next declare a terrorist? You seen, this law does not pertain just to those who are not citizens of this country, but also to those of us who are citizens.


Does this mean that the President can declare anyone who disagrees with him a terrorist? Does this mean that those of us who have been trying to end this war and who have spoken out against it will be declared “enemy combatants”, arrested and thrown into those detention camps that have been springing up across the country?


President Bush has twice taken the oath of office, an oath in which he swore to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States of America. Instead, he has trampled on every little piece of it and gone about the process of dismantling it piece by piece. Shouldn’t this be an impeachable offense?


What is just as sad is that those men and women who were elected to office, who also swore to uphold and protect the Constitution, voted to give President Bush this power. Keep this in mind on election day when you go to the polls to vote.


It is truly a dark time in our country.


Amy Branham

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Mother of Sgt. Jeremy R. Smith

Nov. 1981 – Feb. 2004



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