PETITION: Bring New Jersey's National Guard Home From Iraq
SPONSOR: New Jersey Peace Action, endorsed by Veterans for Peace Chapter 21
DESCRIPTION: In June 2008, President Bush ordered the deployment of nearly half the NJ National Guard to Iraq. With the deployment, many local families have been disrupted and are suffering financial and emotional hardships and our State’s ability to respond to emergencies has been greatly impaired. The war in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of over 4,118 American service men and women, with costs exceeding $1.5 trillion, $16,500 for each American family of four—already too great a cost.We, the undersigned, call on our elected officials in the NJ State Senate and Assembly to pass the resolution currently before the Legislature to order the return of NJ National Guard members, limit the service of the Guard within NJ and to withhold consent from further deployment of the NJ Guard to Iraq unless lawfully called into service under a valid and subsisting authorization from Congress.
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