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Four years after voting to call upon the federal government to withdraw all troops from Iraq, San Francisco voters are considering whether to take the next logical step and call lfor the termination of the war's funding.
Proposition U, which will appear on the city's November 4 ballot, would declare it “the policy of the people of the City and County of San Francisco that: Its elected representatives in the United States Senate and House of Representatives should vote against any further funding for the deployment of United States Armed Forces in Iraq, with the exception of funds specifically earmarked to provide for their safe and orderly withdrawal.”
The sad fact of the matter is, however, that there are currently more American troops in Iraq than there were at the war's outset. Meanwhile, while over $600 billion has been appropriated for a war based on false premises, at a cost of $68 billion to California's taxpayers.
San Franciscans alone have paid $1.8 billion for this war at the same time that city government has struggled to cover school funding, meet health-care needs, and provide public safety. Noble Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warns that when all the bills for the war come due, the U.S. taxpayers will have spent over $3 trillion.
As Campaign spokesman Tom Gallagher recently said, “With over 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead, 30,000 wounded, and tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed and millions displaced, it is time to tell Congress in no uncertain terms that we should not fund one more casualty. This war will only end on the day we stop paying for it.”
Proposition U is endorsed by the San Francisco Labor Council, the San Francisco Democratic Party, the San Francisco Green Party, the San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party, the California Nurses Association, the United Educators of San Francisco, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, the Bernal Heights Democratic Club, the Noe Valley Democratic Club, the Potrero Hill Democratic Club, Code Pink, Progressive Democrats of America - San Francisco, United for Peace and Justice - Bay Area, American Friends Service Committee,the Irish-American Democratic Club, La Raza Central Legal, the League of Young Voters, the Senior Action Network, the San Francisco Tenants Union, Unitarian Universalists for Peace - SF, and many others.
For more information about the campaign please check out our web site at www.yesonpropositionU.com or contact Rick Hauptman at 415-861-7425 and rickhauptman@yahoo.com.
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