Resolution of San Francisco Labor Council

Immediate Withdrawal of All U.S. and Allied Forces From Iraq

…Whereas, the US, British and all colonial occupying forces must leave Iraq, without preconditions. It is the brutal US/UN sanctions and US war that are the primary reasons Iraq went in 13 years from being a comparatively prosperous and modern society that provided for the basic needs of its people, to an impoverished country wracked by sanctions and war. Their immediate departure must be our unambiguous demand;

Whereas, the Occupation forces are the main source of the problem, and cannot be part of the solution. Only when the foreign occupiers are gone will Iraq be in a position to rebuild its society as a sovereign and independent nation. The people in Iraq want the US occupation to end, and the US soldiers in Iraq want to come home;

Whereas, during the Vietnam War the San Francisco Labor Council, along with the mainstream of the anti-war movement, raised the unambiguous demand, "Out Now" and "Bring the Troops Home Now";

Whereas, Veterans for Peace, at their recent national convention in San Francisco, adopted three resolutions calling for immediate withdrawal of all occupation forces from Iraq, and this is also the demand raised by leaders of the rapidly growing movement of Military Families who are speaking out against the war and occupation;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO, reaffirms our commitment to building a movement for immediate withdrawal of all US and allied forces from Iraq.

 

—Adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council, September 22, 2003, by unanimous vote.

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