From: "Pope, Karen O." <POPEKJ@uwec.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:32:03 -0600 Subject: FW: Call-In Now to Pressure House Armed Services Committee on Iraq and Afghanistan! Message-ID: <4F19260FE7477F4DA03B00B62E7F639076BE758B05@CHERRYPEPSI.uwec.edu>
Not just another committee meeting. Please call/email. This is LIVES and
obscene amounts of money no one has. The only winners are arms manufacture
rs and dealers.
Karen
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To: Pope, Karen O.
Subject: Call-In Now to Pressure House Armed Services Committee on Iraq and
Afghanistan!
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[http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/302/images/46559.jpg] Tomorrow, Febru
ary 12, the House Armed Services Committee is convening a hearing on 'U.S.
Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan: Balancing Interests and Resources'.
This is a large committee with 60 Representatives from many states around t
he country. United For Peace and Justice urges you to take a few minutes to
help us put pressure on the House Armed Services Committee to use this hea
ring to raise the hard question, and put on the table the most critical iss
ues about these two wars!
Here are the steps you need to take:
1) Click here <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5
Qy%2F7rBHOGM0W%2FJb%2F85EJIwq7xPOBNyE> for the full list of the members of
the House Armed Services Committee<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/t
rack.jsp?v=2&c=qFcIcQtSKx%2BXv57M%2Fopo6Ywq7xPOBNyE>.
2) Check that list to see if your Representative serves on the committee. I
f you find that person's name, click on that and it will take you to their
website. From there, you will find the best phone number to use.
3) If your Representative is not on this committee, please contact the comm
ittee chair, Rep. Ike Skelton. His office number in Washington, D.C. is 202
-225-2876. You can also call the office of the House Armed Services Committ
ee at 202-225-4151. If you call Rep. Skelton or the committee's office, be
sure to ask why they have not included anyone for tomorrow's hearing that h
as a clear position against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Below is a list of the people who will be giving testimony during the heari
ng and several questions we think the members of the committee should be ra
ising. The hearing is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning at 10:30 am, so i
t is important that you make your call today! And please be sure to pass th
is message along to others and encourage them to also make these calls.
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The witnesses who will be giving testimony at the hearing are:
Anthony Cordesman, Ph.D
Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and Internatio
nal Studies
Stephen Biddle, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
The Honorable Zalmay Khalilzad
Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
General Jack Keane (ret.)
Former Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army
Janet St. Laurent
Managing Director, Defense Capabilities and Management Team, GAO
Questions we want the members of the House Armed Services Committee to ask:
1) What do you predict the total dollar costs for Iraq and Afghanistan to b
e to the U.S. economy? Did Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz un
derestimate when he calculated three trillion dollars for Iraq alone? How c
an you justify spending many millions of hard-earned dollars every day in I
raq and Afghanistan when the U.S. economy is suffering and so many of our p
eople are out of work?
2) The Taliban is on the rise again. Living conditions for the average Afgh
an have not changed much. The U.S. military has killed at least 4,800 civil
ians in Afghanistan, representing 79% of the total civilian casualties in t
he war. Is U.S. military action in Afghanistan harming our national interes
ts by turning the people against us? How has U.S. military action in Afghan
istan increased the security of the region and the people of our country?
3) A policy of the former Bush administration allowed for drone attacks to
occur in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The continued drone attacks are contribu
ting toward anti-American animosity without accomplishing much. Wouldn't it
help reduce the tension and improve the quality of life to ban drone attac
ks entirely?
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