14 ways to start bringing the Iraq War to a close

[ck4829]

How many of these has Congress tried?

Cut funding to the Iraq War
Cut funding to Blackwater and other groups
Cut funding to the US Embassy in Iraq
Demand weekly reports on how the war is going, reports would be delivered under oath
Demand that troops will be withdrawn
Fact finding mission of Iraqi perceptions of mercenary groups such as Blackwater
Investigate the Office of Special Plans
Investigate the White House Iraq Group
Investigate the Energy Task Force
Investigate the Valerie Plame leak scandal
Investigate profiteering and no-bid contracts
Investigate allegations of slave labor at the US Embassy in Iraq
Investigate shoddy construction at the US Embassy in Iraq
Tie aid to Iraq to real progress made

[L0oniX]

1. Charge Bush and everyone involved in Iraq including the troops with murder.

Please excuse me for ranting about this but the war in Iraq will stop when the troops refuse to continue the killing.

If you ride in a car with others and one of them gets out and murders someone then you are also guilty of murder. I would apply that same reasoning to this war. If you are in the military and in Iraq and continued to kill after you knew it was an illegal war then you are a murderer. There is no excuse for killing innocent people. The people of Iraq did not attack us. Any military personnel in Iraq should disobey any orders that would put them in a position where they would be forced to kill innocent people. I know that when one of their buddies gets killed by an ied that the others kill everyone within viewing distance. That is murder!

I am all for the military defending this country and I mean the actual dirt under my feet including all 50 states. Anything else is killing over some asscarrots policy. If you are killing because of policy then you are a murderer. I support those who have served this country in ww2 and they really defended this country. I do support the troops who refuse to fight this illegal war in Iraq and I support all the homeless vets. All this war against terrorism should have been a police action and not a military one. They did not call out the military the first time the towers were bombed. This was all a knee jerk reaction by Americans and the wise thing to do would have been to be quiet and take a few years to infiltrate and assassinate the planners and backers of 911.

[Thothmes]

2. Does this mean

That we should try all of those men Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon sent to Viet Nam for murder. What about the homeless ones, does that mean they get tried also.

[L0oniX]

3. A person I know confessed to me that he and others mass killed whole villages in Vietnam....

and said it was a common occurrence. Should I be ok with that too?

[Thothmes]

4. I have heard that also

But which ones out of the 4 or 5 million men do you want to go for first. Also there is no record of an Enlisted man ever being courtmartialed for carrying out orders from their officers. Did not even happen after Mi Lai.

[L0oniX]

5. I was drafted in 1971 and I was going to go AWOL and when caught I was going to spend the 2 years...

in prison rather than allowing myself to be put in a position where I would have to kill or be killed. I considered that killing others was murder unless it was to defend our country, which the Vietnam war was not about. I was denied a CO for my objection to killing. They wanted to force me to kill others and I still am bitter towards this government to this day over it all. Obviously, all those involved with the war in Iraq who have killed innocent people can't be charged with murder but I don't want to be around them when they come back, knowing that they have done so. I am totally against learning how to kill other humans and so I am against the military unless the war is one where the enemy has attacked our country/land . We were not attacked by a country on 911.