When you ran for President you stated that you would bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Now you are being told by General McChrystal that an addidtional 40,000 to 60,000 more troop will be needed. Fewer than one in three Americans believe the number of troops in Afghanistan should be increased, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, and many Americans believe we should not be involved in Afghanistan any longer.
We are asking you, President Obama, to stand by your word and bring our young men and women home from the War in Afghanistan.
President Obama,
When you ran for President you stated that you would bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Now you are being told by General McChrystal that an addidtional 40,000 to 60,000 more troop will be needed. Fewer than one in three Americans believe the number of troops in Afghanistan should be increased, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, and many Americans believe we should not be involved in Afghanistan any longer.
We are asking you, President Obama, to stand by your word and bring our young men and women home from the War in Afghanistan.
We the undersigned are asking you to bring home our young men and women from Afghanistan. Fewer than one in three Americans believe the number of troops should be increase and less than half of Americans believe we should have troops in Afghanistan.
President Obama please end the war in Afghanistan.
We signed the "Bring Our Troops Home from Afghanistan" petition!
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4:18 am PST, Nov 21,Wood Dragon, United Kingdom
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3:28 pm PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Maine
Please please please bring our soldiers home safe now!!!!
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7:18 pm PST, Nov 18,Teresa Roof, Colorado
I have a son; an only son, serving in Afghanistan. I was a single Mom and he turned out to be a great young man. I have missed sooo much time with him already and for what? I support our Military. I support our war against radical extremists; but I would never say this to him of course; I do not think we are doing any good with limited troops.Gen Stanley McChrystal knows the situation there; politicians do not! I give my son all the encouragement he needs when I am blessed enough to be able to speak with him; but he knows that I am also a very realistic Mom. He could pay the ultimate price as sooo many kids did in Vietnam because of Politics. Stop the Politics from an office and bring our kids home first of 2010; and give Pakistan ultimatums; either do without our funding or give the NATO troops full disclosure on radical elements in Pakistan and full permission to eradicate them. Plain and simple. Commander-in- Chief is supposed to be my son's Leader. Make the right decision and bring my son home and GB our Military and GB the USA! Thanks
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1:54 pm PST, Nov 16,George and Margaret Klohck, Vermont
Fighting terrorists with armies is counter productive. It doesn't work. It makes things worse. Use our great national resources to make friends and shame the terrorists.
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1:54 am PST, Nov 16,Can Atik, Turkey
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2:36 pm PST, Nov 15,Richard Montoya, California
Mr Obama: You were elected to reverse ALL of the UNCONSTITUTIONAL bush / chaney policies. PLZ DO SO- It must be an embarrassment to be known as the bushbama president because you insist on completing what that traitor started. What does that make YOU?
Please Mr President restore our Constitution. IT IS YOUR DUTY
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11:33 am PST, Nov 15,Judith Pennington, California
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9:46 pm PST, Nov 14,Autumn Moran, Colorado
Clarity is needed. There is too much confusion of the reasoning of being there. 40-60 thousand women and men. That is an incredible amount of human lives.
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9:21 pm PST, Nov 14,Jean Richards, California
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5:23 pm PST, Nov 14,Linda Moorhead, Florida
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10:17 am PST, Nov 14,Sue Davis, North Carolina
I am a grandmother and I don't think we are doing what is best for America as a whole. Somehow we have become too "tolerant" of alot of things that our Country was built upon. Why do we let people come to America and then they try to change us into whatever they are "fleeing from". We need to bring our soldiers home. We need to spend our funds here and help our own people. We need real jobs here NOW--not jobs to fix popholes or broken pipes and jobs that will only last five weeks.
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8:55 am PST, Nov 14,M arilyn Stark, Illinois
President Obama
One of the reasons I voted for you was bringing our boys and girls home please don't go back on your word we have lost enough of our children.
Thank You
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10:39 pm PST, Nov 13,Susan Noel, New Mexico
Do not listen to the Cheney war criminal's drumbeat. Fulfill your promise of greatness. Walk the road less traveled (how's that for a cliche?) and bring the troops home. They and the people of these beleagered lands have suffered enough. The economy has suffered enough. Enough is indeed enough.
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7:34 pm PST, Nov 13,Ecie Hursthouse, New Zealand
# 167:
5:52 pm PST, Nov 13,Frank X Kleshinski, Pennsylvania
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4:05 pm PST, Nov 13,Karen Renne, Colorado
Not only should we not increase the number of troops in Afghanistan, we should stop military intervention there immediately. This is a quagmire more menacing than Vietnam or Iraq, and it is already crippling our economy. Everything this country stands for, or should stand for, says that we should not invade or conduct military operations in a country that has not attacked us.
# 165:
10:47 am PST, Nov 13,Donna J, Canada
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10:37 am PST, Nov 13,Anna Stone, Oregon
I voted for change. Continuing in the Bush regime's footsteps is not change. The illegal war in the Mideast has only made the situation worse.
# 163:
10:05 am PST, Nov 13,Roberta Rogers, California
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9:58 am PST, Nov 13,Maureen Belle, Oregon
It's time to stop the sacrifice of our service people and bring them home. We can fight the Taliban in more strategic ways than allowing our military to be pawns in oil war games.
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9:53 am PST, Nov 13,Leslie Keenan, California
War does not help the people of Afghanistan or the people of the world. War never has been the best path to peace.
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7:57 am PST, Nov 13,Lillian Abatan, Illinois
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7:53 am PST, Nov 13,Tisa Loewen, New York
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7:41 am PST, Nov 13,Beth Brenneman, California
The millions who supported you did not think your message of HOPE AND CHANGE meant more war. End all these wars for empire and start the "war" against CLIMATE CATASTROPHY!!!
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6:39 am PST, Nov 13,Leslie Koegle, Nebraska
Is looking as if you don't care about the welfare of our troops, OR our nation, for that matter. Bring our men and women home NOW! This is pointless!
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6:34 am PST, Nov 13,Ricki Finlay, Oklahoma
Dear President Obama, I am begging you to please not deepen our committment to the war in Afghanistan. It has gone on far too long with little effect. Our own country faces many problems and I would rather we take care of our own. I'm not without sympathy for the Afghani people, but they are fighting battles as old as time in ways we do not understand and find practically impossible to penetrate. I would support highly specialized forces continuing to track and eliminate the Taliban and its leaders, but it is not our place to run the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq. They need to stand on their own feet and fight their own battles. Eight years is long enough. I voted for you and I have faith in you to do the right thing. The right thing is not to continue to put our young women and men at risk for countries that do not wish our presence. I am not anti-military. I have a son who has served for over a decade in the Air National Guard, a son-in-law who is full time Air Force. My father-in-law and two uncles served in Korea (one a POW for three years). My brother-in-law served in both the Army and as an officer in the Navy during Vietnam, not to mention the countless thousands of my generations who gave their lives for that lost cause. Instead, can't we put the effort and billions into strengthening our own borders, creating jobs for the unemployed and developing our own, clean sources of energy? Please don't be bullied by the right and the oil companies whose money depends on foreign oil. You promised us change and we believe in you. Sincerely, Ricki Finlay
# 155:
5:47 am PST, Nov 13,Patricia Haupt, Illinois
# 154:
4:23 am PST, Nov 13,Patricia Morton, Massachusetts
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3:59 am PST, Nov 13,Brett Cloud, Colorado
The US has enough domestic concerns that more attention must be focussed at home, rather than on *2* unwinable wars. I remember a young John Kerry -- paraphrasing -- : How do you tell someone that HE must die for the image of the US before we pull out of Vietnam?
The wealth freed up would not only go a long way toward paying for health care, but it would ALSO reassure our creditors that the US was starting to get its fiscal house in order.
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6:16 am PST, Nov 12,Tessa Short, Pennsylvania
The war does not need to go on anymore. We have no right being over there. Our troops should be brought home safe. Bring them Home NOW!!!
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6:57 am PST, Nov 10,Soul Love, New York
War is never a good idea. Peace combined with fairness is generally the best solution for all of us. We prefer our loved ones everywhere to stay intact and happy in a good way, thank you very much. Please bring our troops home now.
