Military Families send letter to Obama opposing Afghanistan

[noamnety]

From Veterans Today (Military Veterans and Foreign Affairs Journal):

Dear President Obama:

As you prepare to announce a new strategy for Afghanistan that could mean deploying tens of thousands more of our loved ones to fight a war with no foreseeable end, we call on you to terminate the military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, bring our troops home now, and ensure they get the care they need when they return.

We urge you to stop billions more from being misspent overseas to misuse young men and women and instead utilize those funds to help overcome the pressing domestic issues of our time; a growing population of veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, a fractured health care system, and a woeful economic climate all desperately demand your attention and action.

Our family is intimately connected to these issues. My husband, Charley Richardson, is slowly but surely dying of an aggressive, metastatic cancer, and dealing regularly with the fractured and overstressed medical system. He also lost his job of twenty years at a state university last April as a result of recession-related budget cuts. And our son served one deployment in Iraq as a Marine and was sent to Afghanistan twice after he joined the private army of contractors that is so central to the war efforts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. We are acutely aware of how political will has been so wrongly misdirected toward military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of achieving economic recovery and sorely needed healthcare reform at home.

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The people of the United States don't want these wars. Even without a draft, even as we deficit fund the wars, they don't want them. Public opposition continues to grow, with 57 percent opposing the war in Afghanistan, according to a recent Associated Press poll. The latest CNN poll found that 49 percent of Americans favored reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan -- with 28 percent saying they should all be withdrawn immediately -- compared to less than 40 percent who want to send more. Imagine what the polls would tell us if the burden of the wars, financial and service, were actually shouldered and shared throughout our nation.

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http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9513&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[Mari333]

1. knr time for the goddamned empire to end

[knightinwhitesatin]

2. They need to shut their mouths

salute and do their jobs....... :sarcasm:

T minus 20 until someone says that and is not kidding

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. The tide is turning against this FUBAR of a lost war. K&R

[eleny]

4. k&r

[democrank]

5. Bring the troops home.

http://icasualties.org/oif/