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About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
By Marc Cooper
The Nation

Saturday 16 December 2006

For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of
active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a
war in which they are serving. Those involved plan to petition
Congress to withdraw American troops from Iraq. (Note: A complete
version of this report will appear next week in the print and online
editions of The Nation.)

After appearing only seven weeks ago on the Internet, the Appeal
for Redress, brainchild of 29-year-old Navy seaman Jonathan Hutto, has
already been signed by nearly 1,000 US soldiers, sailors, Marines and
airmen, including dozens of officers - most of whom are on active
duty. Not since 1969, when some 1,300 active-duty military personnel
signed an open letter in the New York Times opposing the war in
Vietnam, has there been such a dramatic barometer of rising military
dissent.