One way to end the wars is if the troops refuse to go [View all]

[annm4peace]

(I posted this comment in response to another thread, but wanted to post it one it's own. I volunteer and support Vets For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Military Families Speak Out, so I don't make these remarks lightly)

Many of us have given up most of our personal lives have been protesting 12 years. Giving up friends, relationships with family, not having relations in doing so.

Many of us have done so as an obligation to the troops, their families. To speak out for them because we thought they couldn't.
We spoke out and marched because we knew these invasions and occupation and based on lies and immoral.

Many of us did so because we worked with Veterans who attempted and committed suicides. We listened to the active duty troops of these past 12 years. We have listened the families who had military family get killed, get maimed, commit suicide, and in some cases their family members commit suicide because their military family member was killed.

And we listened to the civilians.. we listened to the civilians who visited the US from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia.
the civilians who's family were killed by the US, who were maimed by the US, who's communities where thrown back 300 years because of our bombing, drone attacks, propped up corrupt leaders who are killers.


*** One very effective way to end these wars is if troops refused to go and others refused to sign up, because our calls, marches, sit-ins, arrests, rallies, aren't ending the occupations, the invasions, the continued drone attacks, or Guantanamo. There isn't enough of us with the strength anymore.. many of us have passed away. It will take more of the Veterans, and active duty troops speaking out.

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