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Tell Congress: Honor our Commitments to UN Peacekeeping!
Sponsored by: Better World CampaignGlobal spending on war is staggering, but UN peacekeeping is helping to maintain peace, foster reconciliation, promote democracy, and build the foundation for long-term stability in 18 missions around the world.
UN peacekeeping shares the burden of maintaining international peace and security for a fraction of what it would cost the U.S. to do so, while keeping American troops out of harm's way.
But the United States is failing to pay its fair share of UN peacekeeping even though we vote for every mission! The President's budget request this year shortchanges UN peacekeeping by $500 million.
Considering the U.S. has already accumulated $500 million in prior unpaid bills to UN peacekeeping alone, the United States could owe more than $1 billion to the United Nations by the end of 2007 a small fraction of the $168 BILLION that will be spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year!
Sign the petition below telling Congress to honor its commitments to UN peacekeeping. Peace. It's cheaper than war.
UN peacekeeping shares the burden of maintaining international peace and security for a fraction of what it would cost the U.S. to do so, while keeping American troops out of harm's way.
But the United States is failing to pay its fair share of UN peacekeeping even though we vote for every mission! The President's budget request this year shortchanges UN peacekeeping by $500 million.
Considering the U.S. has already accumulated $500 million in prior unpaid bills to UN peacekeeping alone, the United States could owe more than $1 billion to the United Nations by the end of 2007 a small fraction of the $168 BILLION that will be spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year!
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The UN made peace in Cambodia after 20 years of war. Likewise in Angola. We should keep all our promises to the United Nations. There is no excuse for any countries, including ours, to decide what is internationally dangerous. Especially not one on the other side of the globe which has never done anything to harm us.
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peace = positive = more prosperity for the United States, more lives saved war = negative = less prosperity for the United States, many many lives lost with nothing to show for it
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Please prioritize peace!
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How can the administration claim to be working toward peace while they spend hundreds of billions of dollars on war and ignore funding toward efforts that work toward peace? All those billions are going into very deep pockets of American investors and powers. (i.e. the vice president and president).
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This would just be one small step in regaining our honor with the world nations. An honor we seem to have diminished with our involvement in Iraq.
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It is a disgrace to spend so much on killing and not enough on helping people
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Time to be a good neighbor instead of the bully on the block!
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If our energies were devoted to peace in this world, we would gain everything. It's the positive way.
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It's a commitment. To not honor it is to dishonor ourselves and the world's quest for lasting peace for all peoples.
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