Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq

Stop the Surge - Call to Action to Stop & Reverse the Escalation in Afghanistan

This call to action was originally posted to the Military Families Speak Out website

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Call to Action to Stop the Escalation in Afghanistan
The call to action adopted by the board of MFSO, initiated by Veterans for Peace:

1. Take the actions listed below within the next several days, before President Obama decides to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and
2. Plan acts of even greater resistance during the two days following any such decision.

• Continue writing and calling our representatives and demanding peace.
• If we've done that: take to the streets.
• If we've done that: sit down in the streets.
• If we've done that: sit down in Congressional offices.
• If we've done that: sit down, clog up, incapacitate, call in sick, withdraw consent and generally bring the nation's business to a halt, wherever and whenever we can, with any peaceful means available.

The U.S. House of Representatives can stop the wars by not initiating another funding bill for them.
The President can decide not to escalate the war in Afghanistan and start sending troops home.
Veterans for Peace and its allies can compel them to do so.
Please contact national organizer Sam Diener (sam(at)mfso.org) to let us know about your planned actions and to send written descriptions and vivid photographs of your demonstrations.

VVAW in the News: Veterans Speak About Experiences

This article, by Leslie Cebula, was posted to WTAP.COM, August 3, 2008

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The Pentagon says there's been progress in Iraq citing the number of U.S. deaths has dropped and the amount of violence over the past three months has also declined.
Sunday in Marietta, local and national representatives of the Vietnam and Iraq Veterans Against the War joined for a benefit and discussion about the situation.
Marty Webster grew up in a Conservative family in the fifties.
"I enlisted in the Navy. I wanted to go to Southeast Asia and beat up commies," said Webster, a National Coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
When he was eighteen years old, he served as a Combat Medic with a Naval Surgical Activity.
In triage he said he faced the judgment call of who had to be treated first.
"Sometimes some people that we had decided maybe didn't need quite as quick of service passed away," he said.
He said his experience in Vietnam led him to join Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
"We support the battle weary and the broken hearted and those coming home with their hearts in their hands and not knowing which way to turn.
Sunday, the group along with Iraq Veterans Against the War and members of the Mid-Ohio Valley Peace Initiative discussed what supporting our troops means to them.
"It's a shame how this has affected our young people in Iraq right now. It's the same thing all over again," Webster said.
There are many others who walked away from Vietnam with a different mindset.
"I think we fought for our freedom to do as we please and these people need their choice of freedom," said Doryl Weinstock a Vietnam veteran and member of VFW Post 5108.
Weinstock hauled supplies and troops with the U.S. Army's Fourth Division.
He served from 1965 to 1967.
"My country needed me, I served, and I would do it again and I'm proud I did it," Weinstock said.
Veterans also came to a benefit performance by Watermelon Slim and the Workers in Parkersburg Sunday evening.
The group donated the proceeds to Iraq Veterans Against the War.