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A
message in support of this petition from Mairead Maguire,
Nobel Peace Laureate:
"I was in Iraq during the
sanctions put on by USA and was horrified to visit hospitals
where Iraq children died, without medicine as a result of
these barbaric sanctions and war against Iraq. It is estimated
that over half a million Iraqi children under age 6 died as a
result of sanctions, and I am very sorry and ask for the
forgiveness of all those who lost children and families due to
the perpetual sanctions and war against their country. It is
overdue that USA respect the wishes of Iraqi people and their
government and leave Iraq
immediately."
Just the phase of
the mass killing and destruction of Iraq that began 17 years
ago, assessed by the most scientifically
respected measures available, killed over 1.4 million
Iraqis.
Join
us now in demanding once and for all: U.S. troops out of
Iraq!
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While U.S. troops have
been reduced in Iraq, they have never been removed. In
January, the Iraqi Parliament voted that all U.S. troops
should leave. The U.S. government has refused to
leave, and has instead proposed installing ("defensive")
missiles in Iraq targeting Iran.
While Iran is
depicted in U.S. media as an evil enemy, the U.S. military
does not claim that Iran is a threat to the actual United
States, only to U.S. troops near Iran and U.S. "interests."
The refusal to leave and the decision to install missiles
endanger Iraq, Iran, the entire region, and a world at risk of
nuclear escalation and climate collapse that cannot afford any
more wars.
The aerial bombardment of Baghdad 17 years ago, which was
intended to “shock and awe” people into terror and submission,
followed months of pro-war propaganda in U.S.
corporate media and from the U.S. government.
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Joe Biden
promoted the White House’s lies about weapons of mass
destruction, pushed hard for war, and orchestrated hearings
that excluded dissenting voices.
Many were fooled or claimed to be. Donald
Trump’s last public comment on the war before it
started was that he supported it.
It is now popular in U.S. politics to deny having supported
the war, even to claim to have ended it. But there is
virtually no discussion of the moral and practical necessity
of complying with the wishes of the Iraqi government – wishes
that line up with a demand that many of us have been
making for 17 years – to withdraw all U.S. troops and
mercenaries and bases and weapons from Iraqi soil. Click
here to join us in making that demand. We'll be able to do
more with this petition if you've signed it and if you've
asked others to sign it too.
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signing the petition, please use the tools on the next
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--
The RootsAction.org Team
P.S. RootsAction is an
independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara
Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald,
Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S.
Senator James Abourezk, Frances Fox Piven, Phil Donahue,
Sonali Kolhatkar, and many
others.
Background:
>> CNN: “Iraqi Parliament Votes for Plan to End U.S.
Troop Presence in Iraq After Soleimani
Killing”
>> Mideast Eye: “U.S. Offers Iraq Partial
Pullback”
>> Newsweek: “U.S. Sending Missile Defense [sic] to
Iraq”
>> David Swanson: “Ever More Shocked, Never Yet
Awed”
>> Video: “Worth the Price: Joe Biden and the Launch of
the Iraq War”
>> FactCheck.org: “Donald Trump and the Iraq War”
www.RootsAction.org
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Sent: Thursday, April 02,
2020 7:07 PM
Subject: Get out of Iraq
once and for all |
