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A simple message. Please feel free to endorse this even if you might support Hillary Clinton if she runs for President. In fact, those who feel she would be a good candidate and good for the country ought to be the first to call on Ms. Clinton to take further action to stop this war, otherwise she will damage her credibility among many democrats and many Americans beyond repair of even the most well-funded campaign.
This is only meant to urge her to take further steps to end this war and occupation.
While Clinton rightfully called President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq “a losing strategy” and proposed placing new limits on the White House’s conduct of the war, she did reject, however, taking steps to end the occupation, only saying vaguely that US troops should be withdrawn "eventually", whatever that means. She opposes ending funding for the war. She opposes “finger-pointing, hot rhetoric” on Iraq, a war of aggression that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, and has throughly disgraced America in the eyes of a majority of the world's people. Ms. Clinton, "hot rhetoric" has not done the damage, the Bush administration's criminal activities has created this atrocity, and the silence and acquiescence of too many in Congress has permitted this to continue. It is not the time to wait for a good plan from George W. Bush. This is not the time for "puny opposition" that will allow this war to continue in one form or another.
Our message is simple Ms. Clinton. Say No to this war, standing by current troop levels is disgraceful, that was the Bush administration's stance on November 6, 2006, and the next day millions of Americans went to the polls and did all they could to repudiate it. It is not enough for you to say that America must not go deeper into the quagmire, you must state clearly that troops must be withdrawn quickly from this illegal war and occupation, this nightmare made in Washington with the complicity of too many people currently in office. We will not tolerate those who endorse the status quo. We demand an end to funding of this immoral, stupid, insane war.
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Frederick Douglass, former slave, extraordinary speaker and writer, wrote in his Rochester newspaper the North Star, January 21, 1848, of "the present disgraceful, cruel, and iniquitous war with our sister republic. Mexico seems a doomed victim to Anglo Saxon cupidity and love of dominion." Douglass was scornful of the unwillingness of opponents of the war to take real action (even the abolitionists kept paying their taxes):
The determination of our slaveholding President to prosecute the war, and the probability of his success in wringing from the people men and money to carry it on, is made evident, rather than doubtful, by the puny opposition arrayed against him. No politician of any considerable distinction or eminence seems willing to hazard his popularity with his party ... by an open and unqualified disapprobation of the war. None seem willing to take their stand for peace at all risks; and all seem willing that the war should be carried on, in some form or other.
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