Appeal for Redress to be handed to Congress today
January 16th, 2007
Today is the day that 50 active Officers will hand in the Appeal for Redress from the War in Iraq.
Meanwhile, in Virginia:
Several dozen service members joined peace activists today to call for an end to the war in Iraq, part of a nationwide effort that links a growing group of active-duty protesters to the peace movement…
“We served in combat and we’ve seen the futility of this war,” said Sgt. Jabbar Magruder of Los Angeles, a member of the National Guard who served 11 months in Tikrit, a town northwest of Baghdad. “The soldiers want to resist. The soldiers want to come home now. We need the citizens to back us.”
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