Ending Endless War

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UPDATE: I stand with the Palestinian People in their just

fight for liberation. For 75 years Zionist Israel has

operated an apartheid state, and in the last

months it is quite clear the right wing government

has been intent on the complete ethnic cleansing

of Israel, including all of Gaza and the West

Bank. I do not support the continued funding of

Israel, and I condemn the Biden Administration

for supporting, funding, and supplying weapons

for the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian

people.

From the river to the sea.

Since my first protest against the first Iraq war in 1990, I have been against our military engaging in regime change.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was based on lies and consent manufactured by the mainstream media that cost the lives of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. The so-called “War on Terror” has expanded America’s military reach like never before. This endless conquest must stop. It’s time that we instead focus on investing here at home: in infrastructure, in housing, in education, in providing for the basic needs of ordinary people.

I will fight for:

  • Reducing our military forces, and providing a just transition for soldiers and support personnel to peacetime industries via a jobs guarantee, so that our retiring soldiers are not economically impacted by the drawdown of our forces

  • Ending foreign aid and military support to Israel until the Israeli government ceases the current state of apartheid.

  • Ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine and restoration of Palestinian borders to 1948.

  • Ending the military assistance to Saudi Arabia for their war in Yemen.

  • Eliminating the disturbing and environmentally damaging Growler planes at NAS Whidbey Island..

  • Significant increases in pay for our soldiers, paid for by eliminating the waste, fraud, and abuse of corporate contractors.

  • Dollar-for-dollar peacetime civilian economic investment into areas around military bases if they close to make sure communities are not economically impacted by a closure.

  • Nuclear arms reduction and disarmament.

  • A Pentagon budget that is truly about defense, and not regime change.

  • Fully funding the Veteran's Administration to take care of our soldiers for their needs after being subject to armed conflicts.

  • Eliminating all federal private security contracts.