Dear CCI Readers,
We at CCI have been predicting that for change in U.S. policy to happen, a collective consciousness and rejection against “war-making and regime-change wars” must emerge within our citizenry across America.
That time has come. The killing of Suleimani in Baghdad has aroused the consciousness of Americans and people and countries across our globe. Why? Because it was the worst of options open to us. And because we and they understand this could easily create an uncontainable war … a Nuclear War … from which none of us would survive.
You will receive an increase in emails from us as this crisis moves forward.
We Americans have become so accustomed to creating wars against other nations, that they seems routine to us … like a movie on TV. We do not understand how this appears to other nations, even though many countries are chronically indebted to us for handouts. They go along with us because they must. What a vise to be caught in!
We Americans will pay the price for continuous war-making unless we citizens collectively rise up against the war planners. Our voices, phone calls, emails and letters can force this issue out in the open. Google your Senators or Congressmembers today. It’s easy to get their addresses and phone numbers from the Internet.
We urge you to be in touch with your Congressional offices locally and in Washington this week and every coming week until they take our urgings seriously. Let us at CCI know you are making this effort as a decent, law-abiding citizen of our country.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let’s Go!
January 7, 2020
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Perhaps, rather than sending troops into Iraq and Kuwait to defend U.S. troops already there, we should accede to the local nationalist demands, start bringing our troops home, and let Iranians, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis and Afghans settle their quarrels.
Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship into a beacon of democracy, Iraq’s Parliament, amid shouts of “Death to America!” voted to expel all U.S. troops from the country.
Though nonbinding, the expulsion vote came after mobs trashed the U.S. embassy in an assault that recalled Tehran 1979.
What provoked Iraq’s Parliament into demanding the ouster of all U.S. troops?