Cut the funding, stop the wars!

Start Date:	Apr 17, 2009		Direct Goal Amount: 500 signatures Thanks to you, we’re at 46 or 9% →
End Date:	Aug 17, 2009
Goal Amount:	500
Current Amount:	46
Sponsor:	Eugene PeaceWorks
Tags:	Afghanistan/Pakistan Iraq War Middle East/Asia
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Petition to Oregon Congressional delegation to cut war funding

Please vote against all further funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the only practical way Congress can stop these wars.

Both wars are immoral and illegal, because neither qualifies as self-defense.

Iraq had not harmed the U.S. before our invasion, and was not a threat to us. Even if one believed in the presence of Iraqi WMDs, all we had to do was leave the U.N. inspectors in place to finish their work.

The 9/11 attack on the U.S. was not carried out by the Iraqi or the Afghan people. As a pretext for a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban was accused of "harboring" Al Qaeda. The U.S. has effectively imposed years of collective punishment on the Afghan people, who have no mechanism for collective responsibility. A tribal society living in small villages in mountain valleys, many do not see themselves as a nation, nor do they function as one.

According to one study, the U.S. may have caused the deaths of a million people in Iraq, and thousands in Afghanistan. Continuing this wanton destruction cannot be justified. Likewise, there is no justification for the deaths and wounding of thousands of American soldiers, many of them working-class people who enlisted because they had no way to make a decent living as civilians.

These wars are also ruinously expensive, driving this country ever more deeply into debt. Trying to maintain an ever-expanding American empire, the U.S. is spending its way into bankruptcy.

We ask that you take a stand to stop these wars by refusing to pay for them any longer.

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