Today even members of the Noble Peace Prize committee were stunned to hear President Obama preaching war at the award of his prize medal. The fact is that we need to be winding down our ruinous occupational excursion there, not getting in deeper. And the most appalling thing is the way the hardcore neocons are chortling over their new "war president".

They tell us our military force in Afghanistan is fighting terror. The exact opposite is true. Ten percent of every dollar we pour into that country goes to bribe the Taliban not to shoot at us . . . today. And when they talk about building up the Afghan army, what they don't tell you is how many recruits are in fact terrorists in for the free training. Yes, that's right, in essence the U.S. Army is running the terrorist training camps for the terrorists.

Fax Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1022.php

The page above will send your instant fax to President Obama and all your members of Congress, for no charge to yourself, unlike all the right wing "activist" operations that charge twenty-five dollars or more for doing the same thing.

Notwithstanding some faint lip service, we don't have an ally there who isn't anxious to get the helter skelter out of there, to leave Afghanistan to its local and backward ways. Because every day we stay just means more people who hate us enough to want to leave their own country to try to hurt us here. Congress must refuse to fund. President Obama must get the message that escalation just makes things worse, before it gets dramatically worse. And we need to tell them that now.

Those who think they are doing our new president a favor by not  speaking out in protest have it exactly backwards. Unless we speak  out in numbers greater than before, there is no pressure on him  except from the right, and you can see exactly where that is taking  us now. If you want to help Obama, if you believe he wants to do the  progressive thing, you MUST understand that the only political  reality is the one we create or not, by our action or by our inaction.

The only way we can save Obama from the disastrous path he is on is  by being such a wind behind his back that he has no choice but to  make good policy decisions. It does not matter whether he is a strong  progressive or not, what matters is whether WE ARE.

So please submit the action page. It all starts with citizen  activism. Without ongoing citizen activist not even the most just of  policy causes can prevail. Please submit the action page now, and  encourage everyone else you know to join you.

And here is the one click Facebook page for this same fax action.

No Afghanistan Fax Action:

http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1022

And the Twitter reply to send, to send this message to all your  members of Congress that way, is

@cxs #p1022

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed  to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.