A group of us gathered last night to watch The Ground Truth: interviews with American soldiers about their experience in Iraq (TheGroundtruth.net). The movie, produced and directed by Patricia Foulkrod, is brilliantly made and devastating. Soldiers talk of the trauma of killing children caught in the crossfire, in a war where there is no clear line between the enemy and those they are there to protect.
What can MAU do to STOP escalation in Iraq? It’s clear the war is not making anyone safer and its cost will be felt for generations and generations. We’re sending a letter to the editor (LTE) of our local paper; please join us in submitting some version of this letter to the editors in your hometown newspaper. Also, order the movie and watch it with a group. Let’s rise up against further escalation and funding of this war.
In spirited partnership,
The Mavens at MAU Central
Dear Community:
Congress will vote on a $93 billion supplemental funding bill for the Iraq war (the second for 2007). Please join Americans across the country in demanding Congress STOP THE FUNDING.
For the sake of:
US soldiers: 70 percent currently serving want to return home. Our young people are fighting on a battlefield without clear lines between the enemy and those they are there to protect; returning home broken, both emotionally and physically. $400 billion has been spent on this war yet the troops fighting it are not being adequately supported in Iraq or when they return home.
Iraqi children and citizens: 71 percent want U.S.-led forces to withdraw within a year. They are victims of a war with no clear enemy; 90 percent of this war’s casualties are civilians (nearly half children). An overwhelming majority believes that the U.S. military presence in Iraq is provoking more conflict than it is preventing.
US citizens: 64 percent do NOT think the war with Iraq was worth fighting, considering the costs versus the benefits to the United States.
Global citizens: 75 percent of people in 25 different countries disapprove of U.S. policies toward Iraq, and more than two-thirds said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East does more harm than good. Nearly half of those polled in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East said the United States is now playing a mainly negative role in the world.
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