{"id":156,"date":"2006-10-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2006\/10\/duane-shank-the-soldiers-are-r.html"},"modified":"2006-10-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T12:00:00","slug":"duane-shank-the-soldiers-are-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/10\/duane-shank-the-soldiers-are-r.html","title":{"rendered":"Duane Shank: The Soldiers are Ready to Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jim Wallis\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/sojomail\/shank.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" \/>Opposition to the war in Vietnam from inside the military was unprecedented in American history. Chronicled by David Cortright in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/Merchant2\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=Haymarket&amp;Product_Code=UHPSIR\">Soldiers in Revolt<\/a>, the GI movement played an important part in bringing that war to an end. Now a new movement among soldiers may be starting.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 500 active-duty service people have signed a message to members of Congress. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appealforredress.org\/\">An Appeal for Redress<\/a> says: \u201cAs a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two of the initiators of the Appeal are Navy Seaman Jonathan Hutto, who served on a ship off the coast of Iraq, and Marine Sgt. Liam Madden, who served in the Anbar province of Iraq. Madden told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/24\/AR2006102401154.html\">The Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t think any more Iraqis or Americans should die because of the U.S. occupation.\u201d The goal is to have 2,000 signers of the Appeal by Martin Luther King Day to deliver to Congress. \u201cI think that\u2019s easily attainable,\u201d Madden told the <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2006\/102006\/10262006\/232208\">Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star<\/a>, \u201cThere\u2019s a seed of dissent in the military against this policy, and a core of people who are acting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the soldiers are ready to come home, the war is on the way to being over.<\/p>\n<p><em>Duane Shank is Senior Policy Advisor at Sojourners\/Call to Renewal.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition to the war in Vietnam from inside the military was unprecedented in American history. 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