An action alert from our friends at United for Peace and Justice:
Call Congress Today: Vote to End Afghanistan War!
Congress has the power to end the Afghanistan war with a majority vote of both houses. The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill requiring all U.S. armed forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the year. For more information, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030803787.html.
Call your House representative and tell him or her to vote YES on H.Con.Res.248! Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121
The bill, introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, asserts the authority given to Congress under the War Powers Act. If passed, the bill would require all U.S. armed forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 30 days, or in any case by December 2010 if the President certifies they cannot be safely withdrawn that fast.
The bill is expected to result in 3 hours of debate on the floor of the House. “We haven’t had a real debate,” Kucinich said in explaining why he was pushing the resolution. “We want to light the fire of the American peace movement.” Even if this resolution does not pass, a large number of “Yes” votes would send a strong message to the White House that the Administration needs a real and rapid “exit strategy.”
Contact your Member of Congress to support H. Con Res. 248, and ask your friends to do the same. 202-224-3121
2009 was the bloodiest year for U.S. combat deaths and Afghan civilian casualties. There can be no military solution in Afghanistan. Yet tens of thousands of troops are on their way to Afghanistan this spring as part of the president’s misguided escalation.
Now, the Pentagon is preparing to push a $33 billion supplemental funding request through Congress starting in April, while at home millions of people have no jobs, no health insurance, many are facing foreclosures on their homes, and while climate change rages unchecked.
Join with Progressive Democrats of America, UFPJ and other groups! Participate in or start a Brown Bag Lunch Vigil at local Congressional offices on March 17, and the third Wednesday of every month, to say “Healthcare, Not Warfare!” For more info, go to http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2009-11-13-12-49-50-misc.php.
And call your member of Congress today to say it’s time to end the war and support Rep. Kucinich’s resolution. Not one more death, not one more dollar for war! Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
–John Stewart Mill–
We have lost enough of our young men and woman to the Afganistan and Iraqian war, its time to bring home our troops!