{"id":34622,"date":"2020-01-16T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34622"},"modified":"2020-01-16T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:52:49","slug":"concerned-veterans-for-america-launch-campaign-to-bring-our-troops-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/concerned-veterans-for-america-launch-campaign-to-bring-our-troops-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerned Veterans for America Launch Campaign To Bring Our Troops Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned Veterans for America is running an $1.5 million dollar ad campaign on TV in key states and digitally nationwide calling for a complete withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ar90JDULjac\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sign the letter of support that will be forwarded to the White House and your congressional representative <a href=\"https:\/\/cv4a.ivolunteers.com\/ContactOfficials\/It-s-time-to-bring-troops-home-from-Afghanistan?linkId=80694639\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Dear Officials:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m writing today to ask that you support withdrawing troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East, our troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are put in dangerous positions they don&#8217;t need to be in.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Our service members accomplished their original objectives in Afghanistan long ago. Maintaining a large presence on the ground does not meet any legitimate national interest. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Continuing to deploy troops to Afghanistan puts them in unnecessary danger.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Please do all that you can to protect our troops and withdraw forces from Afghanistan.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Reposted from <a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/\">The Libertarian Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned Veterans for America is running an $1.5 million dollar ad campaign on TV in key states and digitally nationwide calling for a complete withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan. Sign the letter of support that will be forwarded to the White House and your congressional representative here. Dear Officials:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34624,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions\/34624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}