Please join us for a peace vigil on Saturday, December 30th at the Walpole Common from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM as we stand in protest of the Bush administration’s Iraqi war policy. Unbelievably the president is apparently considering a ‘troop surge’ despite all the evidence that the U.S. presence is making the situation worse. The U.S. service dead are approaching 3,000 while Iraqi civilian causalities are estimated as high as 600,000. With the increasing sectarian violence, the U.N. estimates that 1.8 million Iraqis have left the country while hundreds of thousands more have been internally displaced. A May 2006 study by the U.N. World Food Program, ‘Food Security and Vulnerability in Iraq,’ found 15% of Iraqis in ‘dire need of humanitarian assistance’ and 23% of Iraqi’s as being ‘food insecure.’ The U.S. invaded Iraq on blatantly false pretenses that the Bush administration continues to use to justify this tragic war. So please join us if you are able at the start of this New Year as we stand together for peace.
For the Walpole Peace and Justice Group
Philip Czachorowski
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