As Congress and the administration continue to debate the ongoing occupation of Iraq, all of America is ignoring the fact that the Iraqi people want us out of their country. As a veteran with firsthand knowledge of the ravages war can bring to a country, I understand and support their position. The Iraqi people desire and deserve a chance to run their own country. We Americans are a foreign force and are the aggressors in Iraq. The time has come to leave Iraq once and for all.
Write your Congressmen and let them know. All our Delaware Congressmen have been supporters of the war at various times. Congressman Castle continues to this day to support the continued occupation. This position no longer represents the will of most Delawarians and is completely opposed to what the Iraqi people wish for themselves.
End the war now. Bring our troops home alive and well. We can give our troops no finer support than to bring them home from a country that no longer desires their presence.
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Most of America wants our soldiers out. Most of Iraq wants our soldiers out. I'm guessing that most of the world's population would like to see us out of Iraq. So what's the holdup?
Anything to do with Plutocracy, high oil prices, miltary/industrial complex?
A reconciliation process needs to start in Iraq. Our occupation is in the way of that.
The issue in a nutshell:
"As Congress debates whether to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, George Bush is trying to buy time. He and Dick Cheney have no intention of ever pulling out of Iraq.
Cheney commissioned a 2000 report by the neoconservative Project for a New American Century, which said “the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.” A document for Cheney's secret energy task force included a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries, charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and a “Foreign Suitors for Iraq Oil Contracts.” It was dated March 2001, six months before 9/11.
On April 19, 2003, shortly after U.S. troops invaded Baghdad, the New York Times quoted senior Bush officials as saying the United States was "planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq, one that would grant the Pentagon access to military bases and project American influence into the heart of the unsettled region.” They discussed "maintaining perhaps four bases in Iraq that could be used in the future.”
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Nationalists in the Iraqi Parliament recently passed a bill calling for the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, and another demanding the Iraqi government present any plan to extend the occupation past 2007 to Parliament. They will not accept a proposal that includes permanent U.S. bases on Iraqi soil. Our national discourse must include a discussion of U.S. intentions for Iraq after a troop withdrawal. But ultimately, as in Vietnam, it will be the Iraqi people who are the deciders."
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=13333
Bu$hco never had one moment of intention of leaving Iraq at any point in time. The entire affair was based on taking control and keeping control of the Iraqi oil fields. To that end permanent bases are being established even today.
What worries me even more is what appears to be coaptation of the Peace Movement in this country to support the permanent occupation. Drawing down forces in Iraq is not enough. We need full and rapid withdrawal as soon as possible.
The way I see it, it's a question of Republic or Empire.
Has a Nation ever NOT chosen Empire?
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