Reply #16: Ask your Representative to become an original co-sponsor [View All]

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Ask your Representative to become an original co-sponsor of Rep. Kucinich's resolution establishing a timeline for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

This week, Representative Kucinich plans to introduce a privileged resolution invoking the War Powers Act to force the President to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year. Because it will be a privileged resolution, Congress will be forced to debate the issue of the open-ended U.S. war in and occupation of Afghanistan.

Will you ask your Representative to become an original co-sponsor of Representative Kucinich's resolution?

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/kucinich

U.S. soldiers and Afghan civilians continue to die needless deaths in Afghanistan because of the failure of Congress to act to bring the war in Afghanistan towards a close, or even to debate it. On February 24, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said it had confirmed 28 civilian deaths from the U.S.-led assault on the Afghan village of Marjah,<1> a town of some 80,000 people. At least six U.S. soldiers have been killed in the offensive.<2> But the assault on Marjah is merely a "prelude" to the planned U.S.-led assault on the Afghan city of Kandahar, ten times the size of Marjah, the Washington Post reports. <3>

It is virtually certain that the Kandahar offensive will result in many more American and Afghan deaths -- deaths that could be avoided if the U.S. would adopt a political strategy to end the war, instead of the current military escalation.

The next step towards ending the war is to force a real debate in Congress. Will you join us in supporting Representative Kucinich's effort to force a debate by asking your Representative to become an original co-sponsor of Rep. Kucinich's resolution?

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/kucinich

Thank you for all you do to help bring about a just foreign policy,

Robert Naiman, Chelsea Mozen, Megan Iorio and Sarah Burns
Just Foreign Policy