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iSpeak: Fighting Two Wars

Quiet as it's kept in the news media, the US is still fighting two wars (three if we include Pakistan). U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan surpassed 1,000 last week. Taxpayers are paying about $200 billion a year on this effort (in addition to the $800 billion annual military, CIA and nuclear budgets). It's been almost nine years that we've been fighting in Afghanistan, more than seven in Iraq. Nobody in Washington is claiming success. Are we doing the right thing? Is it time to get out? What do you think?

I want nothing more than to see all the soldiers home safe and sound of mind and body. My son will be over there next year. I can’t help but think if we end this would our recession be over. I try not to think about my son over there but it brings tears to my eyes. I just want him home safe.

Lisa Savory
Surgery tech
NY Methodist Hospital
Brooklyn, NY
It’s time to get out.

Rhaudh Seguy
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
Long Island City, NY  
 
It is more than time for us to be puling out of each place! We never should have gone into Iraq in the first place. And Afghanistan is no-win. Lets spend some of those dollars on peaceful measures.

Judith Coughlin
Organizer
1199SEIU
Boston, MA
I am against the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in which we’ve spent a lot money. All these countries hate Israel, which is loyal to the USA. I do not know why we trust these countries....Open your eyes, do not trust them because they hate us.

Luis Arce
Retired member
New York City

Get out of Afghanistan!

Rosalia Melendez
HIM Rep II
CHA
Everett, MA

9/11 was an inside job to validate invading Iraq and a continued occupation of Afghanistan. The military/defense/security contractors have made billions on the backs of taxpayers. That was the plan.

Horace Thomas
RN
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York City
This war is mainly being waged for the benefit of US, British, and Norwegian oil companies who wish to build a gas pipeline from India through Pakistan and Afghanistan to the second largest natural gas fields in the world in Turkmenistan. The Taliban prior to 9/11 had negotiated with these companies but wanted more revenue for allowing the pipeline than the oil companies were willing to pay. This is the major motivation for what in truth is another energy war, as is Iraq.

US out of Iraq and Afghanistan Now! Soldiers and workers, unite against imperialist war!
Smash the capitalist war on terror against the working class!

Ira Wechsler
NYU College of Medicine
Brooklyn, NY
If we pull our troops out now, it would represent that the Taliban and terrorists have gained control. It would mean that the men and women who served our country and died fighting for our freedom died in futility. We will never have a peaceful world as John Lennon and Woodstock represented the Viet Nam war.

MaryBeth Juricek
RN
St. Barnabas Hospital
Bronx, NY
We did not start the fight in Afghanistan but the U.S. must stand its ground or else the terrorists will keep coming after us.

No, we have no business in Iraq and the U.S. needs to pull out.

Pearl Meyers
1199 SEIU Training & Employment Funds
New York City

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