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Saving the Friends We Left Behind
Paul Rieckhoff | March 08, 2008
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803809.html">is being held up by officials in the State and Homeland Security Departments. Meanwhile, the Iraqis wait under constant threat.

As Kirk Johnson argues:

“If this doesn’t prove why it’s President Bush’s responsibility to whip these bureaucracies into shape, and why the best intentions of Congress can only nudge things, I don’t know what else can.”

Join IAVA in bringing this urgent message to Washington. Click here to sign a petition to President Bush telling him to take real action on the issue. This is just the first step towards repaying our debt to the comrades we have left behind to die.  

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Copyright 2009 Paul Rieckhoff. All opinions expressed in this article are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of Military.com.

 
About Paul Rieckhoff

Paul Rieckhoff is the Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and the author of Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective.

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