Letter to Rep. Lynn Woolsey -- delivered at Feb. Brown Bag Lunch Vigil

Submitted by Anna on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 20:58

February 17, 2010

Dear Representative Woolsey,

We thank you for signing on to support HR 2454, calling for an exit strategy from Afghanistan & HR 3699, prohibiting any increase in the number of U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan.

Further, we call on you to publicly commit to voting “No” on any bills that fund wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen, and to publicly urge your colleagues and the House leadership to make the same commitment.

PDA’s deputy director Laura Bonham said, “PDA and our allies call on the Obama administration and the United States Congress to begin redirecting the money spent on war and death into human needs here at home and abroad. We demand humanitarian and reconstructive aid for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, not money for troop escalation and permanent bases. We demand that wasteful and unnecessary military spending be directed toward Medicare for all, jobs, and housing in America. We demand an end to the unjust and illegitimate wars against, and occupations of, Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Sincerely,
Progressive Democrats Sonoma County and friends

— this letter was signed by all the participants at Feb. 17 Brown Bag Lunch Vigil and a couple of passers-by.