Campaign Wants Troops Home From Iraq - Yahoo/AP - Rate This!

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The campaign's name is a twist on President Bush (news - web sites)'s comment at a July news conference. Responding to attacks on U.S. forces, Bush taunted: "Bring 'em on."

The utterance was criticized as an encouragement for violence against American troops.

Set up as a resource for military members while sending a political message, the campaign was initiated by groups including Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace. It unites the anti-war crowd with those increasingly disenchanted with the U.S. occupation.

With no weapons of mass destruction yet found and steady reports of American troop deaths, the campaign has received more support from military families who initially backed the war, but are now asking why their country went there in the first place, said Charley Richardson, whose Marine son returned from Iraq in May.
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link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=10&u=/ap/20030813/ap_on_re_us/iraq_military_families

GIVE THIS A FIVE! NOW!

Here is the address for Military Families Speak Out.

http://www.mfso.org/

My wife read about this group today in the NW Arkansas Times, front page! But of course NW AR Times didn't have the space or ink to print their link. If you can read the MFSO's letters with dry eyes then your a better person than i.

and rebuild the country, we have no choice. The problem is, the bush admin could care less about giving these people electricity, water, and their own government. Bush will rob these people blind and hope he can pull off a re-election. If not he will leave a Dem president to clean up the mess, which will take years, fail, and thus secure the 2008 election for the jeb.

We should force the Bush government to turn over everything - and I mean "everything" - to the UN right now! And then get our troops out. We should foot the bill for all reconstruction, it was our fault, but the only way this mess is going to be fixed is with someone else helping the Iraqis on the ground - not the US! If we stay, it's only because we haven't finished looting, yet.

Screw that! US out of Iraq, now!

The U.S. Occupation of Iraq should end as soon as possible - as John Kerry has said almost a month ago...

Senator Kerry: End US Occupation of Iraq
July 16, 2003,

Washington, DC (AFP) - US Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry called for an end to the US occupation of Iraq and criticized the administration's use of now discredited intelligence as a basis for launching the war.

"I fought in Vietnam, and half the wall -- half the (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) wall -- is filled with the names of people who were there because leaders were filled with pride and wouldn't make the right decisions," Kerry told NBC television.

"We need to get the sense of American occupation over with. We need to protect our troops. And that means that pride should not prevent this administration from going to the United Nations and doing what they should have done in the first place," he declared.
http://veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=897

First, combat troops do not rebuild countries. The current "rebuilding" is only the spoils of war for aWol's supporters, private US contractors.

Second, troops needed temporarily for security should be international and under UN authority, a la Kerry in post #6 this thread.

Third, the true reason aWol, Unka Dick, et al. want our troops there is to maintain control and domination of Iraq for commercial and nefarious, geopolitical goals.

And finally, removing almost all our troops would lead to increased US security vis a vis terrorists by removing a rallying cause for jihadists, and making those US divisions available for action against our true, declared enemy, al Queda. (A small, highly trained group should probably remain to monitor, gather intel, conduct specific counter-terror ops, etc.)

Ain't that right?

Thanks for posting.

Julie