This is no "good war."
Listen to Obama's latest speeches: it is clear that no one in the top rungs of the U.S. government is prepared to end the Afghanistan war, an ongoing catastrophe that is now opposed by a majority of the American public. Within the next weeks, Obama will announce deployment of up to 20,000 more troops. Will you just let this happen without response from those of us who live inside this country - those of us in whose names these crimes are being done?
Since the end of 2001 four wedding parties have been blown away -- murdered -- by U.S. air power in Iraq and Afghanistan. And there was probably at least one more. Back in May 2002, it was claimed that U.S. helicopters wiped out a wedding party in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, killing 10 and wounding many more. An Agence France Presse report at the time concluded: "A wedding was in progress in the village when people fired into the air in traditional celebration and US helicopters flying over the area could have mistaken it for hostile fire. An aircraft later bombed the area for several hours."
We have a responsibility to stop the death and destruction in Afghanistan. World Can't Wait joined October 7th anti-war action with a visible representation of the death and destruction caused over and over again by U.S. bombs raining down on Afghan wedding parties. Any normal social gathering of Afghan civilians may be mistaken for an enemy force and attacked by drones and missiles. This must stop! This is no "good war."
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