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Families of US torops in Iraq launch campaign for their return
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There will be elections coming up soon. This would appear to be a 'cause
celebre' for the democrats, along with the fact that all the problems in
California and all the other states and the US are the republicans fault.
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Finally, even the dumbest people are catching on to what I was sayingmonths ago.iIn article <[email protected]>, AFP / Pascal
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> WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (AFP) - The families of more than 600 US troops
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>have launched a campaign for their return, bitterly criticizing
>George W. Bush's reasons for going to war and what they see as his>belittlement of the risks.> "George Bush said, 'Bring them on,'" said Nancy Lessin, co-founder
>Military Families Speak Out, referring to the president's response to post-war
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>attacks on US troops occupying post-war Iraq.> "Those three words galvanized Military Families Speak Out, Veterans
>Peace and other veterans' organizations to initiate the campaign we are>launching today," she said.> "We say, 'Bring them home now.' Bring them home because our troops
>not have been in Iraq in the first place.> "Bring them home because there was no imminent danger to the United>States. Bring them home because there were no weapons of mass
>Bring them home because there was no link between al-Qaeda and Saddam
>" said Lessin.> "We are here today to say it was wrong for the US to invade Iraq, it
>wrong for the US to be occupying Iraq, and there is no right way to do
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>thing."> Members of her group rallied in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday
>Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home of the 82nd Airbourne Infantry. They
>that most of them were Republicans, had voted for Bush and had
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>war based on intelligence presented early this year.> "From proud liberators in the great American tradition, our troops
>become oppressors and occupiers in a hostile nation," said Susan
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>son is in the Massachusetts National Guard serving in Iraq.> "Our troops are stuck in a quagmire of urban desert guerrilla
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It's an all volunteer Military. Even in my day I saw very few draftees.
>which they are not prepared or equipped," she said.> "My question to Mr. Bush is, 'How many more of our sons do you need
>bring our children home?'" said Fernando Suarez de Solar, whose son,
>Alberto, was killed in action in Iraq.> "How many American lives are worth one gallon of oil?," he mused.> Stan Goff of Raleigh, North Carolina, a 26-year career soldier and
>Special Forces master Sergeant, was bitter about the war.> "You know, in all the administration's fictions of weapons of mass>destruction and nuclear programs and ... the phony al-Qaeda connections
>are being exposed as fabrications, this is not the rule of law," he
> "This is the rule of bombs and bullets. These are rich men in very>expensive suits conducting statecraft like gangsters.> "The US does have a responsibility to Iraq and to the people of Iraq
>clean up the mess that we have made," said Charlie Richardson,
>Military Families Speak Out.> But, he added, "It can't be done with US troops. In launching the
>Them Home Now' campaign, we are calling on military families and others
>military and veterans communities to speak out against the use of our
>as cannon fodder ... against the reckless occupation of Iraq."> pb/aln/jlp>US-Iraq-families
did many things my parents didn't want me to do, let alone me! It isn't
parents obligation to help their children leave a hostile environment,
are full grown adults who have made a choice. Do you think the parents
the children of WWII wanted them there? Of course not, but at least they supported their country and prayed for a save return of their children whilst they were ridding the world of unsavory leaders. I have many friends in Iraq today and I would rather them be home then there, but I know it's only a job, and an important job at that. I pray
them to be save and to apply what they learned in their training. With
they will come out alive and better people than they were before. Yep, that Iraq occupation is pretty dangerous. There are almost as many GIs getting killed in Iraq as there are murders in Cleveland. Bob
celebre' for the democrats, along with the fact that all the problems in
California and all the other states and the US are the republicans fault.
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