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Another War America Cannot Afford

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Another War America Cannot Afford By Bill Haney Huffington Post April 23, 2009 Senator Obama swept into national prominence with his prescient view that an American war in Iraq was one we should not start and could not win. By 2007, years of carnage in Iraq had taught many Americans how foolish the Bush Administration's promises of a simple and flower-strewn victory were. Now President Obama has honored his campaign pledge, committing to a substantial withdrawal of American troops from Iraq within 18 months. But there is another drawn-out war America is embroiled in -- a war that was launched with rosy expectations; a war that has led to unacceptable burdens for our country. It is well past time to withdraw from this war as well. When President Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971, American prisons held fewer than 200,000 people and the prison population was declining...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).