"Bring Them Home Now" Website

I got this link out of the yahoo story on this in LBN. I wanted to post it in a thread title so people will see it, its a great site, especially the section on getting involved in the effort to bring home the troops. There are also letters from family members detailing the kind of hell these troops are living through. I read through the other Iraq sites in GD and as far as I can tell this is not a dupe.

Some snippets:

"Bring Them Home Now is a campaign of military families, veterans, active duty personnel, reservists and others opposed to the ongoing war in Iraq and galvanized to action by George W. Bush's inane and reckless challenge to armed Iraqis resisting occupation to 'bring them on'".

"The truth is coming out. The American public was deceived by Bush about the motivation for and intent of the invasion of Iraq."

link:

http://www.bringthemhomenow.org


I have a personal stake in this a close friend of mine has been called up. I am interested in this movement as a vehicle to return media focus to the plight of our troops in Iraq, as it allowed itself to be shamelessly diverted by the Kobe and Arnold crap.

My son is in Iraq, whereabouts I cannot say, but I have heard from him. He and his platoon were so hungry and thirsty by the time they got back to Kuwait, they 'stole' a crate of MRE's. They were caught of course, but when the Lt. found out how long they had been on one MRE a day and one bottle of water, he did not punish them. The thing is, why was this unit left to fend for itself? Who was furnishing them with a hot meal a day, and all they wanted to drink? Nobody! They slept in, on, and around their trucks because they had no tents. Their socks are worn out, they are getting athlete's foot from the conditions. I have sent cans and cans of foot spray to them, and socks. Where's the army supplies? Did they think 6 pairs of socks was going to last 6 months in those conditions? Oh yes they have px's in some places over there. A can of foot spray there cost the soldiers $6.00 a can, I can get it at Wal-mart for $4!!!! Who's taking care of who? I say, BRING OUR MEN AND WOMEN HOME!

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My Daughter is in Baghdad in the MP's and we are told they are only allowed 2 bottles of water and one cooked meal aday. Great site, I want my child home. I have called and written and e-mailed my congressmen but never get a response.
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Some veterans have called that absence from duty "desertion." When our children come back, some as young as 20 years old, as combat veterans, the President cannot even pretend to have any regard for what they have been through -- the sights, the smells, the sounds they will have etched forever in their memories.

Our President continues to slash health care and benefits for veterans, while painting himself the champion of the armed forces. Yet our President reaps the 'back door benefits' of all the corporations making millions off the war. Our children will most likely see images of mangled bodies, wounded children and major destruction. But what are our Presidents priorities? Bechtel, Carlyle and Halliburton -- I guess there is profit in humanitarian relief.

Patriotism is not blindly wrapping yourself in the flag and saying the commander in chief can do no wrong. I am an American, proudly supporting the men and women who are serving and have served this country, but I will no longer cower to the fallacy that I must support my president, right or wrong, as he blatantly lies to us again and again.


http://www.wanderbody.com/bringthemhomenow/sound/main.html

I'm one of those people who always gets choked up during the Pledge of Allegiance, Star Spangled Banner, or God Bless America. But now I weep for another reason. When I see our so-called "Commander In Chief" using our beautiful flag, or Mt. Rushmore, or the deck of an aircraft carrier as a backdrop for his lies and propaganda it turns my stomach. And how dare Bush and his cronies dare call anyone who dissents unpatriotic?

Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove, Ashcroft, Rice and, I'm sorry to say, Powell are guilty of treason and crimes against humanity. Every time another one of our young people is killed or injured, every time another innocent Iraqi falls, Bush et al's guilt is multiplied. And in their pride and stupidity they aren't even asking the United Nations for help. But then how can they,after thumbing their nose at the entire rest of the planet?

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I too come from a military family - also one that lived under Nazi occupation and resisted - they were what you now call 'terrorists'. I am very angry that people resisting an illegal occupation should be called 'terrorists'. Or anyone fighting back they only way they can against immeasurably superior forces. Or that our soldiers don't know anything about Nuremberg, or the Geneva Conventions, or illegal orders, or the immorality of invading a poor country that never was our enemy. Americans don't seem to have learned much from history - WW II and Vietnam, for starters. Especially Nazi Germany.

I know more than I care to know about how the US treats its veterans - I've been in the trenches fighting for their healthcare - and I am sickened by the devastation from Vietnam, Gulf I, and other illegal brush wars initiated by lies and propaganda. It's hard to feel sorry for Americans who have never had their own homeland bombed into rubble - even your own brain-washed, testosterone-poisoned kids. They should be home in school, not killing other people's kids.

http://new.globalfreepress.com/flash

I have a friend over there as well and we must all do what we can do get the media to cover their situation accurately.

:hi:

peace

http://new.globalfreepress.com/flash

thanks again, kick :hi:

peace

Bush should be jailed for war crimes based on the way he is treating his own military, not to mention what he has done to the Iraqis.

from a military wife attacking Bush for his "reckless" use of troops.

Said the people truly supporting the troops were the ones seeking to bring them home.....

the letters and news are worth reading. I believe Stan Goff got this going.

..and don't forget www.mfso.org

and encouraged everyone to forward it to anyone
who family or friends are serving .

in addressing it to family with this message "I'm sending this out to anyone who is interested in supporting our troops in Iraq."

Not being spiteful, I just had alot of people around me blindly marching to Bush's spin without actually knowing anyone in the military who might have to serve, like I do (my friend in the reserves).

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Thanks for the link. It was so heart wrenching watching those with loved ones who died in Iraq.