ON Tuesday, July 5, the Los Angeles City Council voted for a resolution that calls for the US federal government to end its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a 12 to 1vote, the Council said money for those foreign wars should be invested instead in cities and other domestic needs.
According to the resolution, Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city on record will be in support of any legislation that would pay for the “safe and orderly withdrawal of US troops and contractors.”
In an article on LA Times, Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who is running for Congress in a special election on Tuesday, said she had heard voters repeatedly express fatigue with the nation’s overseas combat missions. “This country, I believe, is war-weary,” she added.
Two weeks ago, the US Conference of Mayors, with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as its current president, took its own vote calling on President Obama and Congress to “speed up the ending” of the two wars -- and reallocate the funds toward job creation at home.
The authors of the proposal were City Council Members Paul Koretz and Bill Rosendahl. Koretz was quoted in LA Times as saying the war in Iraq “never made sense.”
(www.asianjournal.com)
(LA Midweek July 6-8, 2011 Sec A pg. 4)
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