Group wants anti-Iraq war resolution on town meeting ballots (NG home)

[leftchick]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/353/region/Group_wants_anti_Iraq_war_reso:.shtml

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The network is circulating petitions in an effort to get enough signatures to put a resolution concerning the war on the Town Meeting Day agenda of dozens of troops.

The premise of the resolution is that the war in Iraq is unjustified and illegal. It asks the state to pursue two avenues to recall Vermont Guard troops already deployed.

it calls for Vermont's congressional delegation to urge congress to return power over the National Guard to the individual states the Guard was designed to protect.

It also asks the Legislature to form a committee to investigate how the Guard's deployment has affected the state's readiness for emergencies at home. Drafters say the Vermont Constitution gives the state authority to withhold Guard troops if it can demonstrate that sending them abroad would unduly compromise the state's ability to handle state crises.

[T Roosevelt]

1. I was just thinking

wouldn't it be great if some of those (not just Democratic) governors started calling their troops back home...

[GetTheRightVote]

2. I love these people, they really have a great ideal, more should do it

[koopie57]

3. One thing I have always wondered about the NG

Numerous times I have heard that these men and women signed up to protect freedom, etc. ... you know how it goes. And I hope no one takes this question as something negative against the troops or the national guard cuz I have nothing but the utmost admiration and awe at the courage they are showing us. ok? But, didn't they sign up to protect their family and the freedom of OUR country? Did any of them sign up to protect the freedom of another country? That is what I don't understand. How can * send them to fight for the freedom of Iraq and say that is why they are fighting over there if nothing in their contract said that? I can understand sort of the military being over there, but the NG? I don't know. Wish I could have posed this question better.