The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back No, No, No More Afghanistan War Funding ********** [185813:021411] J.H., Pottsville, PA No, No, No More Afghanistan War Funding In the wake of 90,000 leaked documents finally exposing the truth of how completely misguided the occupation of Afghanistan is, and how badly it's really going, the New York Times is reporting that "In Congress, House leaders were rushing to hold a vote on a critical war-financing bill as early as Tuesday, fearing that the disclosures could stoke Democratic opposition to the measure." The truth WOULD tend to put a crimp in continuing hideously bad policy, so of course they want to rush to extend the bad policy even more, before even more truth comes out. Well, we the people have our own urgent message for Congress. Stop it. Stop it cold. Stop it now. Or don't count on being in office after the next election. ********** [070233:102410] G.S., Rocklin, CA TO ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS: Vote AGAINST those who vote FOR war! ********** [015928:092610] m.h., Inkster, MI My real biological father was a veteran of the vietnam war. He came back from the wwar and discovered that my mother had passed me off as someone else's child. I met my father at the age of 6. We were friends until he died hit by a drunk driver when I was 11. He was a member of the Navy SEALs. His name was Michandrew Jones. He told me that the primary problem with the Vietnam conflict was that we entered into the conflict without an exit plan. That led to a lack of focus in the war planning and a reactionary approach to the war. We have the same problem now in this conflict. We lack focus. ********** [072915:092010] s.s., Dixon, NM TEN YEARS OF WAR DESTROYED THE SOVIET UNION-NOT IT IS DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY-AND NOTHING TO GAIN FOR THE TRILLIONS SPENT. LISTEN TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER-THE ONLY WINNER IS THE FUNDING TO THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. ********** [110154:091610] C.J., Atlanta, GA This is a never ending war, we should return our people back home, this is not our fight, too many young lives are being taken. ********** [174418:091210] B.H., Salem, OR Please get out of this illegal quagmire. Our Service personel are dying and being injured in this insane action. We need help here with a real tax fairness bill that keeps jobs here and not subsidizing coorporate greed. The only ones making money our these greedy contractors. While are soliders are dying protecting their interests. ********** [143743:090910] N.G., Chicago, IL I have the answer for affordable healthcare, ending both illegal, immoral wars, educating ALL our children, getting the middle class back on its feet, catching up to the rest of the world w/clean energy, JOBS for Americans, upgrading and improving our so last century infrastructure AND more or less guaranteeing a progressive win in Nov... CUT THE DEFENSE BUDGET. USE THAT MONEY FOR EVERYTHING LISTED ABOVE and THEN SOME. No matter how much politicians whine and moan about deficits and not having money to pay for anything for Americans, there's always enough money for defense! They continue to mortgage our country's future to give the richest top 2% tax breaks and send our children to foreign lands to get maimed and killed but whenever it comes to our social safety net, oh no! no money, how we gonna pay for it? THE GREEDY UBER RICH NEED TO STOP RIDING THE BACKS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS and START PAYING THEIR OWN WAY!!! HYPOCRITES!! ALL OF 'EM!! Especially the republiCONS ********** [191434:083110] C.A., Ukiah, CA Our people - here in the U.S. - are going on the street, going hungry, going sad - and you are pouring millions and billions of dollars into Afghanistan, which will never never never help anyone. Our own young men are being killed and maimed, WHAT FOR??? You can't win in a situation like Afghanistan. ********** [100726:082510] D.V., Duluth, MN We need to end this war! It's not doing us any good to keep fighting it. ********** [090357:082410] K.L., Kingston, WA Please let's change the direction the US has taken as a police and military supervisor of the countries in the middle east. This policy seems to have the effect of exaserbating those countries civil and external relations with countries within their region. I want our country to become less of an imperial power and more of a progressive, self-contained entity that works to equalize and support its own peoples as well as the peoples of the world. This has become a reality for many formerly paternalistic countries, like those of Japan and Europe. Let us begin to join a less combative, competitive world and build more cooperation in living together in Peace,please. ********** [140808:081910] S.G., Duncanville, TX No more war. ********** [102039:081510] b.h., Soquel, CA Even the stupid Communists figured out that they has lost in less time than this. ********** [042208:081510] T.O., Stockton, CA STOP LETTING THE BANKERS RUN THE COUNTRY. ********** [101245:081410] D.B., Wayne, PA WE ARE BROKE AS A COUNTRY - where is the money coming from - 1 billon per month!!!!!!!! ********** [062256:081110] M.G., Bellingham, WA So Mr. Obama and the rest of you democrats when are you going to begin to walk your hot air talk....never, yes I know. Our country is falling apart socially, economically and materially as our roads and cities show. Yet you folks not only have not gotten us out of Iraq, you have gotten us into Afghanistan as well. I know that you are not stupid like our last president, so that just makes you even worse. If you have any integrity left it is time to use it. ********** [215639:081010] R.B., Los Angeles, CA The war in Afghanistan must be stopped now, ********** [154931:081010] P.G., San Diego, CA Stop the dishonest "foreign policy" of endless wars. It is time we stopped the hemorrhaging of our national treasury for the rampant assaults on sovereign nations. If you want to offer retribution for 911, then start with a new and proper investigation like we never had. If you want to control the national debt, stop the illegal wars. ********** [211224:080810] D.A., Petaluma, CA PLEASE! Let's have NO MORE WAR!! Let's spend the money on constructive things like education, food for the poor and better health care! I am counting onmy senators and Congresswoman to make this happen!! ********** [165651:080810] f.c., Saginaw, MI unbelivable ********** [141244:080810] R.S., Phoenix, AZ It is WAY pass the time to get out of IRAQ and Afghistan ********** [133624:080710] W.H., Sedona, AZ It is an unacceptable waste so spend so much in Afganistan where the probability of success is so low. ********** [171337:080610] J.C., Roslindale, MA The Afghanistan War was not a thoughtful response to 911. A criminal action by a questionable figure became the justification for a war that has killed thousands of civilians and created many enemies. ********** [153946:080610] S.B., Houston, TX Please stop making war. Please wage peace. ********** [093050:080610] S.P., Danvers, MA Presently,America sits at a critical juncture in her short history.With the grotesque continuation of two wars abroad and the threat of a third,this nations future now stares straight into a yawning abyss.Once again,as in ancient Rome,the people have been fooled into giving their republic over to elite interests inimical to their own,only to witness the abrogation of personal liberty and basic human dignity.Whatever so called 'success' is to come from these foreign entanglements will not be the taste of 'victory',but the putrid stench of ashes in our mouths as our nation,like Rome and countless other imperial follies,comes crashing down upon the ignominious dust heaps of history. The shopworn slogan of 'support our troops' has come to represent our unwitting buttress to those corporate elites who wish only to obscenely expand the diameter of their profit margins.As usual throughout mankinds history,it is the rich who collect the spoils of war and the poor,the duped,and the unfortunate,who spill their blood and are rewarded a mere flag draped coffin for their 'noble' efforts.It is not enough that we present our 'leaders' in Washington with reasoned arguments as to why these wars should end,for we must commit ourselves as a species to ending war as the main supportive concept in the continuation of the societal status quo.Until that effort is seriously considered and discussed,the rich will continue to greedily count their considerable profits,while the poor,who all too often find themselves blindly marching to the strident drums of war, shall continue to beg for mere scraps of bread from the aristocrats abundant tables. ********** [035627:080610] j.t., Fort Lauderdale, FL WE TRIED TO INSTILL DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY RISKIN AND LOSING AMERICAN SOLDIERS. NOW IT IS UP TO THEM TO MAINTAIN THIS FORM OF GOVT. WE NEED TO STOP SPENDING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FOREIGN LANDS AND FOCUS ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR A CHANGE. WE DID A RESPECTFUL JOB OVER THERE AND NOW IT IS TIME TO LET THEM BE BIG BOYS AND MANAGE THEIR OWN. IF WE DONT LET THEM DO IT THEMSELVES, THEY WILL NEVER NO HOW. ********** Go Back