Take a stand and cut war funding: Letter to the editor of Democrat and Chronicle from MFSO member Marilyn Lambert-Fisher
As the mother of a
soldier who served in Iraq for 10 months, I ask readers to join me in
urging our representatives to vote against supplemental appropriations
for the war. Defunding the war does not mean defunding the troops. The
$70 billion that Congress approved in September 2006 can be used to
ensure that the troops have the armor, food and supplies they need to
come home quickly and safely.
Military Families Speak Out (www.mfso.org),
an organization of more than 3,200 military families who support the
troops and want them brought home now and taken care of when they get
here, shares this position.
Proposed bills and nonbinding resolutions allow Congress the unacceptable position of funding the war while opposing it.
Troops
home in six months? At the current rate, more than 500 troops will be
killed in six months. Six months is too long. The most supportive thing
Congress can do for our troops is to end the funding for this
disastrous, unjust and unjustifiable war.
—
MARILYN LAMBERT-FISHERBRIGHTON
The writer is a member of Military Families Speak Out.
