Call Biden – Note 6 more months: Troops out of Afghanistan

Contact Biden, Klobuchar & SmithTell the Biden Administration to withdraw U.S. troops: 
www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

The U.S. signed an agreement last year to remove all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May 1, 2021.

The Biden Administration has now announced that U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan until at least September 2021.

The extension of U.S. troops staying in Afghanistan may result in increased hostilities between the Taliban and U.S. forces, providing a pretext for increased U.S. military involvement.

Come August, will the call be “we can’t leave now?”

The war in Afghanistan needs to end, and it needs to end now.

The effects of U.S. militarism are felt at home with militarization of police and brutalization of communities locally.

The wars abroad are also felt at home, as funds for housing, jobs, health care and other human needs go to the Pentagon war machine. During the pandemic, Americans increasingly have started to question what the U.S. prioritizes.

The war in Afghanistan has cost U.S. taxpayers $978 billion since 2001.The U.S. has been occupying Afghanistan since October 2001, for more than 19 years and through four presidential administrations.

USA Today reports that more than 2,000 U.S. troops have been killed and 10 times that many injured, and that over 100,000 Afghan civilians died between 2010 and 2020 alone.

We need to send a LOUD message that this war needs to end! Afghanistan, along with Iraq and the other wars that the U.S. government has endlessly inflicted on the world, has shaped an entire generation. A child born on this date in 2001 is now old enough to fight in Afghanistan, and has grown up in an environment without privacy rights, in a time that has “normalized” Islamophobia, hate, and endless U.S. wars and occupation.Take Action!

Call issued by:  MN Peace Action Coalition, Anti-War Committee and Women Against Military Madness.

For more information: 612-827-5364 or 612-275-2720