Military Families, Veterans Demand End to Occupation of Iraq

Galvanized to action by George W. Bush's inane and reckless "Bring 'em on" challenge to armed Iraqi's resisting occupation, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace and other organizations based in the military community will launch Bring Them Home Now, a campaign aimed at ending the U.S. occupation of Iraq and returning troops to their home bases at a press conference on August 13 in Washington, D.C.

U.S. military casualties from the occupation of Iraq have been more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe because of an extraordinarily high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths in the ranks that have gone largely unreported in the media. The other underreported cost of the war for US soldiers is the number of American wounded-827, officially, since Operation Iraqi Freedom began. (Unofficial figures are in the thousands.) About half have been injured since Bush's triumphant claim on board the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln at the beginning of May that major combat was over.

The mission of the Bring them Home Now campaign is to unite the voices of military families, veterans, and GIs themselves to demanding: an end to the occupation of Iraq and other misguided military adventures and an immediate return of all US troops to their home duty stations. On August 13 in Washington, D.C., Veterans and Military Families will raise concerns about current conditions in Iraq that their loved ones and other troops are facing such as the lack of planning and support troops are receiving, as well as questions about the justifications used to send troops to Iraq in the first place.

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For a very long time! There so much oil in Iraq and now the US has made control over all of it and I know they want to send some to Israel and all the oil corporations are going to make so much money, so why should the US military leave? It won't happen.


Iraq is the American's West Bank and Gaza now. Might as well set up settlements for some ethnic group who feels they need a homeland there.

We spend an absolutely incredible amount of money propping up our triumvirate of Saudi Arabian, Israeli, and Egyptian cops on the beat over there and that doesn't even cover the sixth fleet. Even before Iraq our policies on the middle east didn't make sense from any fiscally sane point of view and when you add in the cost of occupying Iraq it gets way, way out of proportion.

I think it's just an insane sort of political momentum left over from Cold War era paranoia.

It's not about getting the oil out of the desert. There is plenty of oil for out current needs.

It's about keeping the oil in the ground, out of the hands of our competitors.

I'm going to try and get in touch with one of the speakers. He lives here in Raleigh....

http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

This is a great site for the military and civilians who want to end this madness. It is time to start protesting again! :bounce:

This a really important post. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Can u keep us updated? Hope everyone gets a chance to read this.

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