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Afghan Women Say NO to the Surge—Stand with Them:

Sign this petition and stand in solidarity with the women of Afghanistan as they speak out against the surge.

“To fight is not the solution. We have a mouth and a brain, we should talk.” --Dr. H.B. Ghazanfar, Women’s Affairs Minister (Translated by Fawzia Habibi, Director of Coordination & International Relations for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs)

The petition has already been signed by:

Uzma Noorani	Pakistan	Human Rights Commission in Pakistan
Baela Raza Jamil	Pakistan	ITA Public Trust
Dr. K. Lalita	India	Chair, Yugantar NGO
Dr. Kawsar Salehi	Afghanistan	MOPH
Surya Parlika	Afghanistan	Afghan Women’s Network
Najia Zewari	Afghanistan	Gender & Justice Officer, UNIFEM
Noojris Nehan	Afghanistan
Dr. Alema	Afghanistan	Afghan Women’s Network
Zoya Hassan	India	Professor, Center for Political Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University
Dr. Roshanak Wardak	Afghanistan	Gynecologist and Member of Parliament
Leeda Yqoobi	Afghanistan	Deputy Director, Afghan Women’s Network
Sheila Samimi	Afghanistan	Advocacy Director, Afghan Women’s Network
Wazhma Karzai	Afghanistan	Sister-in-Law of the President

President Obama,

We, the women of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the United States, implore you to refrain from sending more United States military forces to Afghanistan.

We encourage you to work quickly for a political solution in Afghanistan that will lead to a reconciliation process in which women will fully participate and a withdrawal of foreign military forces.

Sending more military forces will only increase the violence and will do further harm to women in children. Instead, the funds should be redirected to improving the health, education and welfare of the Afghan people.

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Number	Date	Name	Location	Add your message for Congress
2314	December 27, 2011	maria carro	, ES	Protect the rights of afgan women in Afgansitan.
2313	December 13, 2011	Sallamah Aliah	, IL, US
2312	November 18, 2011	Staci Frye	, NY, CA	I guess that to get the <a href="http://goodfinance-blog.com/topics/mortgage-loans">mortgage loans</a> from banks you ought to present a good reason. But, once I have received a sba loan, because I wanted to buy a car.
2311	October 15, 2011	Rosemary Strange	, FL, US	I have on my refrigerator door the "Faces of the Fallen". It reminds me several times a day about the wide-eyed young men who went saying "yes sir" and doing things they never expected to so. Pleas bring them home.
2310	September 20, 2011	Daniel Belachew	, MA, US
2309	September 16, 2011	sheila atchley	, OK, US
2308	September 15, 2011	Susan Carr	, NH, US	Actions speak louder than words. To keep killing and bombing and warring on other nations does NOT make us a peace loving country. STOP the wars..
2307	September 07, 2011	francoise sanchez	, FR
2306	August 17, 2011	Donna Speaks	, VA, US	August 2011 has already accrued the third highest death rate for U.S. Troops since we've been in Afghanistan. That doesn't sound like a drawdown to me.
2305	July 14, 2011	Theadora de Soyza	, NY, US	WOW- WOMEN OPPOSED TO WAR JOIN OUR SISTERS IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND ALL OPPRESSED WOMEN IN PROTESTING THE DAMN BLOODY WARS-STOP THE KILLING!
2304	July 05, 2011	Janice Henry	, FL, US	I think that we need a newsreel of women and children being boomed by Israelis and US troops along with the DRONES. We need up and close footage of the bloodshed and the agony to be shown to the White House, Justices, Congress and the Senate all separately in a closed environment (no cell phones, Iphones, computers any diversive device). No details of blood, pain and agony should be withheld and NO ONE LEAVES UNTIL THE MOVIE IS OVER. And then vote on FUNDING THE WAR, BRINGING THE TROOPS HOME; AND EXCLUDING ISRAEL FROM INCLUDING THE US FROM THE ATROSITIES OF WAR. I am sick, sick of watching children with no legs, arms, eyes, burns etc. Dead women and killed fathers FOR NO GOOD REASON. The Palestine were also on this land in the time of the Bible as Israel. The Jews are cruel and unjust and what would their God say about their actions? God sent his only begotten Son, Jesus. a sweet, peace loving man who died a excuriating, humiliating death so that our sins could be forgiven. While Israel doesn't accept Jesus, they cannot deney what he stood for...PEACE
2303	June 10, 2011	Meredith Domurat	, FL, United States
2302	June 08, 2011	Joyelle Jolie	, ON, CA
2301	June 03, 2011	Cynthea LaCroix	, CO, US
2300	May 15, 2011	Emma Spurgin Hussey	, GB
2299	May 02, 2011	Scott Wylie	, SC, US
2298	April 24, 2011	Anonymous	, MN, US
2297	April 18, 2011	Carol Appel	, CA, US	Stop the fighting and bring our youth home.
2296	April 03, 2011	Hannah Staller	, CO, US
2295	March 17, 2011	Abigail McIntyre	, AU	There should be a full accounting of the cost of the war in Afghanistan to date, and any projected costs in future budgets. This must include any provision for private security forces or payments to private companies allocated or donated project funds, given statistics of civilian casualties, and lack of adequate food, water and sewerage. Julian Assange and Bradley Manning will be vindicated and forever lauded as champions of transparency and democracy who exposed global political hypocrisy. The manner of Julian Assange’s arrest and Bradley Manning’s detention drives home the very clear truth that we can no longer rely on those in authority to act in the best interests of the public. There has been a seismic shift in morality and accountability.
2294	January 21, 2011	Karen Steele	, MD, US	Here I am One more drop in the bucket. If everyone stops paying federal taxes our Public Servants may get the message
2293	January 13, 2011	Rolf Stuber	, CH
2292	January 06, 2011	judy de la ossa	, AZ, US
2291	November 11, 2010	marge dakouzlian	, NY, AM	would you kill your own grandmother or mothers? Drones are the cowardly way of the soldier & this is not a warrior--this is murder straight up! isn't interesting that we never run out of weapons! Kill women & Mother Earth to your peril.
2290	November 11, 2010	julie vidal	, FX	afghan people need education, jobs, food but no war

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