escalation - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:16:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 escalation - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 Warriors against the War https://www.quakerranter.org/warriors_against_the_war/ https://www.quakerranter.org/warriors_against_the_war/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:22:44 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=615 In the news:  more than 1,000 service members sign petition to end Iraq War (Stars and Stripes), organized by the Appeal for Redress campaign sponsored by a handful of military antiwar groups including Nonviolence.org alums Veterans for Peace. The simple petition reads:

As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home.

Supporting the troops means making sure American lives aren’t being wasted in dead-end wars. Their service and their sacrifice has been too great to continue the lies that have fueled this conflict since the very beginning, starting with the mythical Saddam/Al Qaeda connection and the phantasmic weapons of mass destruction. The current escalation (euphemised as a “surge”) of troop levels is simply an escalation of a badly-run war plan. When will this all end?
*Update*: President Bush has admitted that the Iraq government “fumbled the executions.”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/washington/17prexy.html. Meanwhile, the UN puts the “2006 Iraqi death toll at 34,000”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html. When will Bush admit he’s fumbled this whole war?

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/warriors_against_the_war/feed/ 0 615 Resources on the Lebanon conflicts https://www.quakerranter.org/resources_on_the_lebanon_confl/ https://www.quakerranter.org/resources_on_the_lebanon_confl/#respond Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:24:17 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=614 Voices for Creative Nonviolence is doing some organizing around the fighting in Lebanon/Israel/Gaza. Check out “Beyond the Escalation of Injustice”:vcnv.org/beyond-the-escalation-of-injustice which calls for “direct engagement.”
Through them I found a link to “Jihad Against Hezbollah”:www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3412, the new piece from Steven Zunes, a very knowledgable writer for Foreign Policy in Focus. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (this afternoon on the train) but it looks like good background material on the group.

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