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Up To Local Citizens

We have seen many reports in the last few months of how our own leaders in the U.S. military along with the CIA and other agencies have been warning that a war in Iraq is a reckless and ill-advised course of action. They have all pointed out that such action is likely to create more dangers for the U.S. along with unpredictable consequences for many others.

These loyal public servants are bound, of course, to follow orders, and therefore it is up to us as local citizens to make sure that politicians, including the commander in chief, do not place our soldiers in dangerous situations against the interests of our country. Many people in our community are members of the reserves, in addition to those in active service. We need to be their voices of influence

Violating treaties, threatening the constitution, and attacking other countries are directly against U.S. ideals and values. We must work hard to change the course of the unpatriotic and un-American push to war for oil to benefit the elite by a President who failed in Afghanistan to stop Al Quaeda or capture Bin Ladin.

A.T. Miller
Bridgewater Township
6 December 2002