Activists will Petition to Keep Guard Troops HomeMilitary.com | JUSTO BAUTISTA, NorthJersey.com | February 19, 2008
Peace activists will kick off a statewide petition campaign today urging Governor Corzine to keep National Guard soldiers from going to Iraq.
"Now is no time to send one-half of the New Jersey National Guard to Iraq," said Terri Suess of Newark, a member of New Jersey Peace Action.
"Now is the time to enter international, round-the-clock negotiations, draw down the troops, and bring peace to Iraq."
Some of the state's more than 3,000 Guard soldiers who will be deployed to Iraq in mid-September are scheduled to start training in April at Fort Indiantown Gap, a National Guard center in Pennsylvania.
The petition campaign will kick off at a rally at 11 a.m. at Military Park on Broad Street in Newark.
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