Why wait till 2014? End the War in Afghanistan NOW from USACTION / TRUE MAJORITY 3MAI12 & Poll: Few in U.S. sense Afghan support for war 11MAR12

THE agreement signed with Afghanistan is meaningless, the corrupt government of hamid karzai is incapable of any honor and so can not be trusted to honor the terms of this document. Negotiations with the taliban are futile, they are as corrupt as the government they are fighting. We are wasting American, NATO and Afghan lives every day this war goes on. It is time to stop the killing and to bring our troops home. Please sign the petition from USAction / True Majority calling on Congress to stop the funding for the war and to provide funding only for the immediate withdrawal of all American troops now! We need to keep up the pressure on the government to end this war now, before the end of 2014.

	End the War Now - not in 2014 End the War in Afghanistan Now Click here to tell Congress we can't wait, it's time to end the war NOW. On the one year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan. There he announced that we signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghanistan government, and reiterated his plan to gradually draw-down our forces, ending the war in 2014. We're always glad to hear the President talk about ending the war, instead of expanding it — as Mitt Romney and the right wing Republicans would have it. But the end of 2014 is not soon enough. At a time when we are forced to make tough sacrifices at home — we simply cannot afford to spend more blood and treasure in Afghanistan. It's time to end America's longest war now. Will you sign our petition calling on Congress to bring our troops home to safety and end the war now? Recently Obama came under fire from Republicans who called his withdrawal timeline an "arbitrary deadline." But it certainly isn't arbitrary to the thousands of families waiting for their sons and daughters to come home, out of harm's way. And a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows a majority of Americans agree, with 60 percent of Americans who favor bringing our troops home sooner, rather than later.1 Setting a specific timeline shows bold leadership on Obama's part and is a strong contrast to that of Mitt Romney who said he would not set a withdrawal timeline for Afghanistan — instead calling for an open ended combat commitment in Afghanistan, a never ending war. But every day we stay there, more money and more lives are lost. Why wait till 2014? We need to end the war in Afghanistan NOW. Last night the President said, "this time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end." We couldn't agree more - click here to tell Congress we can't wait, it's time to end the war NOW. Sincerely, David Elliot USAction / TrueMajority 1 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/poll-few-in-us-sense-afghan-support-for-war/2012/03/11/gIQAfj4S5R_blog.html

Poll: Few in U.S. sense Afghan support for war

By Jon Cohen

Few Americans sense widespread Afghan support for what the United States is trying to do in that country, a perception that bolsters public backing of a troop withdrawal, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Overall views of the war in Afghanistan are in the pits: 60 percent of Americans see the war as not worth its costs, nearly double the 35 percent saying the decade-long effort has warranted the expense and lost lives. There has been consistent majority opposition to the war for nearly two years.
Big majorities of Democrats and independents continue to call the war not worth its costs, and for the first time in polls stretching back five years, Republicans are evenly divided on whether the war has justified its price. Also for the first time, more Republicans “strongly” see the war as not worth fighting as see it as strongly justifying its costs.

(Washington Post-ABC News) Republicans are far more apt than Democrats or independents to support keeping U.S. forces in Afghanistan until the Afghan army is well-enough trained to operate independently.
Overall, 54 percent of all Americans want to pull out U.S. troops from Afghanistan even if the Afghan army is not adequately trained to carry on the fight. About six in 10 Democrats and independents back this position, but the number slides to just under four in 10 among Republicans.
One key driver — across party lines — is a broadly held view that most Afghans are not supportive of U.S. efforts there.
Just 30 percent of Americans sense that most Afghans endorse what the United States is trying to do, and two-thirds of those who see Afghans as behind U.S. initiatives there want American troops to stay in the country until the Afghan army has been trained as a capable fighting force. It’s a mirror-image among those who see the Afghans as opposing the U.S. role: here, two-thirds want a troop withdrawal, regardless of the Afghans’ capacity.

(Washington Post-ABC News) The poll was conducted March 7-10, among a random national sample of 1,003 adults. Results from the full poll have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.