Peace and War

Progressive Democracy South Jersey

WHEN: Saturday, February 2nd at 6:00 p.m.,

WHERE: Unitarian Church of Cherry Hill, N.J.
401 North Kings Highway
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
http://www.uucinch.org

“No End in Sight” examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, purging professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the chaos that engulfs Iraq today.

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By David Swanson

Check out this letter I just received by Email:

The lurch was first mentioned in Dante’s “Purgatorio,” and I had always wanted to go there. What can I say? I’m an adventurer. That’s one reason I joined the military in the first place. Well, that and all the lies about money and college and not having to serve in Iraq. When I’d completed my third tour in Iraq and they stop-lossed me, it felt at least as bad as a ticket to purgatory. How could read more

By David Swanson

Congress has the power to bring all troops, mercenaries, and contractors home safely this year. The cost of bringing them home is minimal and already covered by funds appropriated for wars and for a military budget that eats up over half of every tax dollar. We cannot afford another year of damaged world relations, of dead bodies, and of enormous financial expense. Representatives can commit to voting No on any appropriations bill that would give another dime to the occupation read more

By David Swanson

What should the peace movement do in 2008 to speed the end of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, bring home the troops and mercenaries and contractors, and stop draining trillions of dollars out of Americans’ pockets for an expense that most of us do not want? And what should all organizations do whose domestic missions are devastated by the occupations’ drain on the national treasury?

Of course, we should continue to work on public education, and on counter recruitment. read more

By David Swanson, based on report from Malachy Kilbride

Mike Ferner was found guilty today in District of Columbia Superior Court. He has just been sentenced.

Ferner was originally sentenced to 5 days incarceration suspended and 6 months unsupervised probation including a $100 fine and $50 to the victims compensation fund.

He told the judge that he would not pay the fine and that his highest civic duty was to protest as the Germans should have done against Hitler. “Today we must speak out against read more