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First, we decide there WILL BE an end.
How many times have you heard someone, perhaps a right-wing pundit, perhaps your neighbor, remark, "Well, we can't just leave Iraq. We've made the mess and now we've got to stay." As progressives, we agree with the first statement, we can't just leave. Noone has plans to go in, pick up the troops, and say "damn the consequences." We also agree that the President and his advisors have made a mess in Iraq, and that it must be dealt with. Where we disagree with this particular line of thinking is at that part about having to stay.
Asking more young Americans to go and die in Iraq isn't going to fix the damage inflicted upon that country. What we truly need for cleaning up the Iraq mess is two-fold, with a U.S. and an Iraqi component. Americans, particularly those who have lost loved ones in Iraq, need an admission from the President that he sent our troops to war on false pretenses. The constant posturing on the part of politicians is one of the single largest impediments to moving the discussion forward. We MUST get this message through to them: The war was a mistake of monumental proportions. The military conflict must end, and we must move toward conflict resolution.
Progressive Democrats of America is convinced that our troops must be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible. The deceit, delusions, and unnecessary deaths must be stopped. Iraqis, who have been offered liberty, now want the right to exercise it. They are clamoring for an end to the U.S. occupation of their country.
The "we can't leave" paralysis, which is costing American and Iraqi lives every day, must end. A new process, focused on conflict resolution, must begin. The President and Congress have the ability to move such a process forward, but seem incapable of doing so without pressure from the citizenry [sign the People's Petition]. We must join together in the following demands, explained in more detail on the petition:
The President and Congress must: Make it clear we have no long-term plans to occupy Iraq, bring the troops home as soon as possible, compensate Iraqis for the damage inflicted on their country, engage with the U.N. in creating solutions, and send a peace envoy to the region.
If our current goal as Americans is to liberate the people of Iraq, we must understand it means liberating them from a U.S. occupation as well. Together, we can make this happen. Please read and sign the People's Petition. One million Iraqis signed a petition demanding the withdrawal of occupying forces from Iraq. Let them know we heard them, and that we agree.
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