Oct. 26: 2000 Too Many - Vigil for Soldiers Killed in Iraq

Oct. 26

2000 Too Many - Vigil for Soldiers Killed in Iraq
CNN has just reported grim news: 2,000 Americans soldiers have now died in Iraq.

6:00-7:00 PM, Times Square Recruiting Center,
Join veterans, military families and United for Peace and Justice-NYC for a solemn vigil. Bring flowers to lay on the doorstep of the Recruiting Center and banners and signs.

We have just received word that the moment we have been dreading has arrived: 2,000 U.S. servicepeople have now died in Iraq. We grieve for these two thousand men and women, killed in the prime of their lives, for a war based on lies, and we grieve for the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have also died in the chaos and carnage the Bush Administration has brought to their country.

It's time to bring the troops home -- now. Not one more U.S. serviceperson should give his or her life to this senseless war. Not one more Iraqi should be killed. Not one more U.S. dollar should be spent sustaining this war and occupation.

Also:

6:30 PM, Chelsea Neighbors United to End the War will be standing on 8th ave and 24th St,as part of the national protest against the war. Also 8th Ave and 17th st. At this point there will be two locations. [I'm not sure if the 8th Ave. & 17 St. is still happening, but 8th Ave. & 24 St. is definitly.-Dan]


6:30 PM, 3rd Ave & 47th St, (northeast corner)

1:00 PM, World Trade Center (outside PATH Station)
[Church and Dey St.: R, W to Cortlandt; E to World Trade; A, C, to
B'way-Nassau; 2, 3 to Park Pl.; 1 to Rector; J, M, Z, 4, 5 to Fulton
St.-B'way Nassau]

6:30 PM, Brooklyn, Prospect Park at Bartel-Pritchard Circle [F to 15th St.]

5:30 PM, Astoria, Queens, corner of Ditmars Blvd & 31st St [N, W to Ditmars]

Their caskets have been hidden from view, and the news of their deaths has receded to the back pages. But the men and women who died in recent days were no less brave or less honorable than those who died in the first days of the war. It's time for us to publicly honor them--to remind the public that they're dying every day in the quagmire of Iraq--and ask, "How many more?"

JOIN US outside of Senator Clinton and Senator Schumer's offices on Third Avenue in Manhattan to let our senators know how we feel about America's 2000 dead soldiers.

Sen Schumer on Meet the Press, Oct. 23:
MR. RUSSERT: Based on what you now know today, do you regret having voted for the war?
SEN. SCHUMER: Well, no, Tim, because my vote was seen and I still see it as a need to say we must fight a strong and active war on terror.

Sen Clinton in Newsday, Oct. 24
"I've been asked many times, do I regret that vote," she told an audience in Palm Beach, Fla., in January. "I don't regret the vote based on what I knew at the time, but I regret the way the president used the authority. I also deeply regret our lack of planning, our refusal to use enough troops to stabilize and secure Iraq." ...
Clinton rejects that argument [to set a withdrawal date]. She still holds out hope the passage of the Iraqi constitution will lead to greater stability, in part by welcoming previously excluded Baath Party officials back to their old jobs in ministries, according to aides. She might reassess the situation in 60 days if conditions don't improve, they say.

Urge Senators Schumer and Clinton to bring our troops home now:

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