{"id":24322,"date":"2011-06-19T00:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T04:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2011-06-19T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T06:24:12","slug":"rethink-afghanistan-the-mayors-are-revolting-against-the-afghan-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24322","title":{"rendered":"Rethink Afghanistan; The Mayors are Revolting against the Afghan Wars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Rethink Afghanistan the<a href=\"http:\/\/usmayors.org\/79thAnnualMeeting\/\"> United States Conference of Mayors<\/a> is calling for a<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-06-17\/us\/mayors.conference_1_end-wars-mayors-afghanistan-and-iraq?_s=PM:US\"> immediate ending to the Afghanistan War.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The United States Conference of Mayors calls on the U.S. Congress to bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs, promote job creation, rebuild our infrastructure, aid municipal and state governments, and develop a new economy based upon renewable, sustainable energy,&#8221; the resolution said, noting that the United States pays $126 billion a year to support the wars that have killed more than 6,000 U.S. troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet I have to wonder what happened to the money from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009\">stimulus bill<\/a>. Because according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-greenwald-and-derrick-crowe\/the-mayors-have-had-enough-of-war_b_879787.html\"> Rethink Afghanistan<\/a> spending one Trillion dollars in one year was not enough. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And here&#8217;s the big picture: &#8220;Local governments shed 28,000 jobs last month, the Department of Labor reported, and have lost 446,000 jobs since employment peaked in September 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These wars are killing our people, they&#8217;re killing our economy and they&#8217;re killing our communities. They&#8217;re not worth the costs. They&#8217;ve got to end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or perhaps it as more to do with what happened in shortly after September of 2008. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/27531033\/\">Now what could that be? <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED Sporkmaster:<\/strong>  Oh and guess who have been helping behind the scenes. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/262377_236664699681709_100000145431507_1195837_2621959_n.jpg\" title=\"Code Pink War Dollars Home Resolution\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Rethink Afghanistan the United States Conference of Mayors is calling for a immediate ending &hellip; <a title=\"Rethink Afghanistan; The Mayors are Revolting against the Afghan Wars.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24322\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rethink Afghanistan; The Mayors are Revolting against the Afghan Wars.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,43,6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-media","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}