Appeal for Redress

[deminks]

Group of military members to present to Congress an appeal to end the war in Iraq

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=5941763&nav=S6aK

NORFOLK, Va. Military members opposed to U-S involvement in Iraq gathered in Norfolk today to demand the withdrawal of American troops and prepared to present their appeal to Congress.

More than 20 active-duty service members and about 100 supporters appeared at an event highlighting the efforts of Appeal for Redress. The group calls for Congress to end the war, rather than increase troops in Iraq, as President Bush has planned. More than a thousand military members have added their names to the appeal's list, which is to be given to Congress tomorrow.

Norfolk-based Seaman Jonathan Hutto and Quantico-based Marine Sergeant Liam Madden started the Appeal for Redress Web site last year.

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Here is the web site listed in the article

http://www.appealforredress.org/

Here is an article in the Nation about the group

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070101/cooperweb

Some politicians are starting to see that not only a majority of Americans oppose to this war. Now they see this very powerful statement of soldiers who have already been on the front line and who are still in uniform and are also opposed. None of them have been where we have been, none of them have seen what we have seen. It's time they do.

:patriot:

[Mnemosyne]

1. K and R, to keep it out there for support of those troops on their toughest mission! n/t

:patriot:

[porphyrian]

2. Hell yeah. - n/t

[Karenina]

3. Fuck yeah!

K&R!

[Tom Joad]

4. Like to see Edwards support this. K&R

[Karenina]

5. It would be nice

to see DUers support it.

[Tom Joad]

9. Yes, even that much. Many do, i know, but sometimes these things

just aren't seen by those who would.

[EFerrari]

15. Mr. Conyers has.

:hi:

[deminks]

6. Kick for the daylight.

I hope more people see this and give support to this group. They are presenting to Congress today.

[intaglio]

7. K&R nt

[Kadie]

8. I just found this picture - rate it up at Yahoo pics...link

Sam Adams of Philadelphia, Pa. left, David Cline of Jersey City, N.J., center, and Steve Mortillo of Hopewell, N. J., hold a banner seeking appeal for redress from the war in Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)


http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/705/im:/070116/480/ed375c6192454abaa40837bcf68d092f

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070116/480/ed375c6192454abaa40837bcf68d092f

[EFerrari]

13. Thanks, Kadie! You're so good at finding these. I never think of it.

:)

[Kadie]

16. .

:hi:

[NNN0LHI]

10. These guys need to testify before Congress and tell America what is going on

That will be the end of this war.

Don

[EFerrari]

14. They were on DemocracyNow! -- on the phone from Iraq. Link:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1536236&mode=thread&tid=25

Amy Goodman should get some kind of a medal for the work she does, no kidding.

[EFerrari]

11. Kick for real bravery.

K&R

[spanone]

12. K&R

[deminks]

17. Update: NPR has story and audio

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6874417&ft=1&f=1001

All Things Considered, January 16, 2007 · Active-duty members of the U.S. armed forces visit Capitol Hill to present more than 1,000 signatures demanding that lawmakers cut off funding for the Iraq war. They say that most of the people who signed the Appeal for Redress have served in Iraq, while others expect to be sent there. Two House Democrats received the petition and promised to urge the entire House to consider it.

One of those presenting the petition was Marine Sgt. Liam Madden, 22, who two years ago did combat duty in Iraq's turbulent Anbar province. Madden dressed in a civilian coat and tie in a chilling wind outside the Capitol to formally present the 1,028 appeals for redress from other active-duty forces — 60 percent of them fellow Iraq veterans.

"We will not tolerate the rhetoric that we must support the troops by funding a war that puts them in harm's way," Madden said. "If you are funding a war that puts them in harm's way, you are not supporting them. You are endangering their lives for a war that cannot be justified, has not been justified and will not work."

Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich, a longtime opponent of the war and also a presidential contender, received the documents. "The action taken here by individual service members is an appeal for redress to end the war in Iraq," Kucinich said. "As you know, these troops have risked their careers to deliver this message to Congress."

[goodhue]

18. kick