Sign the petition: Investigate the U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital

Despite my reservations regarding the effectiveness of this petition,
I signed. I signed in order to add my voice of concern regarding the
enormous numbers of lives being thrown away in this insane War on
Terror.
But investigation will result in nothing more than finger pointing and
the usual disclaimers. If we want to do something positive, something
that might begin a process of ending this world-wide murder, we can
begin putting pressure on our government to ban the sales of weapons
to foreign nations or to Terrorist Groups(Freedom Fighters). We can
demand that our government lead the way to the table to negotiate
peace. We can pressure Congress to ship food and supplies for
rebuilding, to the people we've been killing. We can mount a campaign
declaring that Peace begets Peace. We can insist that our military
budget be cut in half. It is already proving that being over stocked
in weapons is not the answer to winning. We need to be clear that
killing our so called enemies of freedom is not ridding us of them,
but instead is creating an even stronger, more determined resistance.
And most important, we must begin to deal with our own national
violence. In my lifetime, inch by inch I've witnessed our society
becoming more violent. It is appearing to be accepted as part of who
we are. Violence is in our daily conversation, it shows up when we
are stressed, when someone crowds ahead of us, whenever something
affects us and our loved ones. Violence is becoming expected in our
games and sports. No longer do we just swagger out of the movie house
after watching John Wayne or Clint Eastwood take on an entire gang of
rustlers or bad guys, but instead we swagger and shove our way in many
of our daily activities.
We are allowing a bully attitude to become part of our American
Culture. Sure, we've always been pushy and impatient as a People, but
in prior times we at least tried to put on a kind face. Now we snarl
and shove our way through life.
President Obama is right in one thing, reports of mass shootings are
becoming routine. What we need to hear from him now, is a solution.
Or at least a beginning of a solution. Yes, shutting down the purse,
and big flapping mouth of the NRA would be a small step, but that is
only a symptom of the underlying violent people we are becoming.
While we stomp and shout and wave our bombs at the Terrorists we are
led to believe are waiting to attack us, we are fast becoming our own
nation of terrorists. Think of how many nations around the planet who
would rejoice if America suddenly went away.
Since we even spy on our so called friends, and bully them into doing
our bidding, would they come to our aid if we lost our strangle hold?
I wonder what history, if there is to be a history, will have to say
about the Great American Empire.

Carl Jarvis
On 10/7/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
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> From: Becky Bond, CREDO Action [mailto:act@credoaction.com]
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> Subject: Sign the petition: Investigate the U.S. bombing of a Doctors
> Without Borders hospital
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> uM> the petition: Justice for Doctors Without Borders
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> Tell President Obama and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter:
> "Immediately comply with the demands presented by Doctors Without
> Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in their official statement on the
> grave violation of International Humanitarian Law at Kunduz:
>
> 'Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, MSF
> demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be
> conducted by an independent international body.'"
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> Dear Miriam,
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> <http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/?t=3&akid=15813.967351.-mZS
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> In the middle of the night on Saturday, a U.S. military plane "repeatedly
> and very precisely" bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital filled with
> doctors, nurses and wounded patients in Kunduz, Afghanistan.1
>
> The airstrike killed twelve Doctors Without Borders staff members and ten
> patients, including three children, and injured scores more. Some patients
> literally burned alive in their hospital beds.2
>
> So far, the Pentagon has only released incomplete and contradictory
> accounts
> of what happened and why.
>
> On Sunday, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stated
> that: "Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, MSF
> demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be
> conducted by an independent international body. Relying only on an internal
> investigation by a party to the conflict would be wholly insufficient."3
>
> The world needs to know how and why this grave violation of International
> Humanitarian Law was committed. Those responsible for what we presume to be
> an atrocious war crime must then face justice.4 Please join Doctors Without
> Borders in calling for an immediate and independent international
> investigation.
>
>
> <http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/?t=4&akid=15813.967351.-mZS
> uM> Tell President Obama and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter: We join
> Doctors Without Borders and demand an investigation by an independent
> international body into the U.S. airstrike on the Kunduz hospital. Click
> here to sign the petition.
>
> The Pentagon initially claimed that the hospital was hit by accident after
> U.S. troops nearby came under fire and called in the airstrike, then later
> changed its story and said that no U.S. troops were in the area and that
> Afghan troops called in the strike.5
>
> But the Pentagon's story simply doesn't add up. According to Doctors
> Without
> Borders: "Not a single member of our staff reported any fighting inside the
> MSF hospital compound prior to the U.S. airstrike on Saturday morning... We
> reiterate that the main hospital building, where medical personnel were
> caring for patients, was repeatedly and very precisely hit during each
> aerial raid, while the rest of the compound was left mostly untouched."6
>
> Further, "The bombing took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the
> GPS coordinates of the trauma hospital to Coalition and Afghan military and
> civilian officials as recently as Tuesday, September 29, [five days before
> the airstrike] to avoid that the hospital be hit."7
>
> Shockingly, the bombing continued for more than half an hour after Doctors
> Without Borders staff began making frantic calls to U.S. and Afghan
> military
> officials.
>
> The Pentagon's claim that the hospital was bombed by accident is also
> contradicted by statements by Afghan officials, who have tried to justify
> the attack by claiming that the hospital was used by the Taliban for
> military purposes. Doctors Without Borders responded to this reprehensible
> claim with a statement saying:
>
> MSF is disgusted by the recent statements coming from some Afghanistan
> government authorities justifying the attack on its hospital in Kunduz.
> These statements imply that Afghan and US forces working together decided
> to
> raze to the ground a fully functioning hospital with more than 180 staff
> and
> patients inside because they claim that members of the Taliban were
> present.
>
>
> This amounts to an admission of a war crime. This utterly contradicts the
> initial attempts of the US government to minimize the attack as 'collateral
> damage.'
>
> There can be no justification for this abhorrent attack on our hospital
> that
> resulted in the deaths of MSF staff as they worked and patients as they lay
> in their beds. MSF reiterates its demand for a full transparent and
> independent international investigation."8
>
> The human cost of this crime far exceeds the staff and patients killed in
> the airstrike. The hospital, which in 2014 treated 22,000 and performed
> more
> than 5,900 surgical procedures, was the only free trauma care hospital in
> northern Afghanistan, where the Afghan military and the Taliban are
> currently engaged in heavy fighting. Doctors Without Borders has now closed
> the hospital.9
>
> Join us in demanding justice for Doctors Without Borders. Click the link
> below to sign the petition:
>
> http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/?t=6
> <http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/?t=5&akid=15813.967351.-mZS
> uM> &akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM
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> We cannot allow this horrific act to be swept under the rug, and, as the
> Pentagon's shifting account of the attack shows, we can't trust the same
> people who may have participated in a war crime to investigate it. We need
> an independent investigation.
>
> Thank you for taking action.
>
> Becky Bond, Political Director
> CREDO <http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=7&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM>
> Action from Working Assets
>
> P.S.: CREDO members have long supported Doctors Without Borders with
> donations from their mobile and credit card bills. We will continue to
> support Doctors Without Borders and its mission to provide independent,
> neutral and impartial medical aid in war zones and where it's needed most.
>
> Add your name:
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> <http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/?t=8&akid=15813.967351.-mZS
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> 1. "Statement
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9950?t=9&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> on Kunduz
> Hospital Bombing," Doctors Without Borders, October 4, 2015
>
>
> 2. "Afghanistan:
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9951?t=10&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> MSF
> Demands Explanations After Deadly Airstrikes Hit Hospital in Kunduz,"
> Doctors Without Borders, October 3, 2015
>
>
> 3. "Statement
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9950?t=11&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> on
> Kunduz
> Hospital Bombing," Doctors Without Borders, October 4, 2015
>
>
> 4. "Médecins
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9960?t=12&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> Sans
> Frontières (MSF) denounces blatant breach of International Humanitarian
> Law," Doctors Without Borders, October 6, 2015
>
>
> 5. Thomas Gibbons-Neff, "U.S.
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9952?t=13&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> military
> struggles to explain how it wound up bombing Doctors Without Borders
> hospital," Washington Post, October 5, 2015
>
>
> 6. "Statement
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9950?t=14&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> on
> Kunduz
> Hospital Bombing," Doctors Without Borders, October 4, 2015
>
>
> 7. "Afghanistan:
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9951?t=15&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> MSF
> Demands Explanations After Deadly Airstrikes Hit Hospital in Kunduz,"
> Doctors Without Borders, October 3, 2015
>
>
> 8. MSF
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9953?t=16&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> Response
> to Spurious Claims That Kunduz Hospital Was 'A Taliban Base'" Doctors
> Without Borers, October 4, 2015
>
>
> 9. Alissa J. Rubin, "Doctors
> <http://act.credoaction.com/go/9954?t=17&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> Without
> Borders Says It Is Leaving Kunduz After Strike on Hospital," New York
> Times,
> October 4, 2015
>
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