Dear Philadelphians and friends,

For five years now, in our name, the part of the world that we call "the cradle of civilization" has been mercilessly strafed and bombed by our military. The horrible war in Iraq has become a military and humanitarian disaster on nearly all levels: for the people of Iraq, for under-equipped American troops, for the fiscal health of our government for generations to come, and for our own safety as a nation.

During that time, Senator Hillary Clinton has used her position on the Armed Services Committee to begin reversing the terrible course we have taken. She has written a raft of legislation in repeated efforts to bring our troops home, stop the out-of-control no-bid contracts to defense corporations, reform the shameful way our government treats servicemen and women, and most of all, end this terrible war and begin to heal the nation of Iraq.

If elected President, Clinton would sign orders to begin bringing the troops home within 60 days.
Hillary's withdrawal plan also includes a multi-state aid program for the Iraqi refugee crisis, run through the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees; a long-term regional stabilization program, composed of global powers and all states bordering Iraq; and reconciliation effort among the sects now embroiled in a civil war, similar to the peacemaking efforts in Kosovo and Rwanda.

Hillary is the only candidate to surface from American politics since the Cold War with the vision, the strength, the innovativeness, and the empathy to imagine a future American economy based on prosperity through peace, rather than war...and with enough bravery and drive to bring this vision to life.

A Hillary Clinton presidency would mean job creation through the badly needed revitalization of our public landscape: our schools, our broken healthcare system, our crumbling infrastructure and neglected cities - not to mention the tremendous change as we transfer, as a country, from the age of fossil fuels to a new age of biothermal, wind, solar and other natural forms of energy.

This war is ours to end, and Hillary wants to end it, which is why the Republicans hate her so much. If we end the war, the billions of dollars currently going to feed the defense corporations could be diverted to healthcare, education, infrastructure improvement, and job-creation and training programs.

It's 2008, and we are at a crossroads as a nation. We simply must elect the candidate who has the expertise, the talent, the experience, the passion, and the strength to bring peace to the world, and bring our nation and our economy back to life. And that is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I encourage you all to help THIS WEEKEND!
Here are two ways to volunteer for Hillary:

1. Just pick up the phone!

Even if you can make just 2 hours of calls on a Sat or Sunday, the Clinton campaign is asking for folks to call into primary states from their home phones here over the weekend.
It's extremely easy, it's free, and it's very badly needed in the weekend before March 4.
The campaign will even tell you phrases to say, if you need them!
Go to www.hillaryclinton.com and click on the little "March 4" button with the states on it.

EVERY CALL COUNTS.

2. Get local on Sunday!

The first meeting of the Hillary for President campaign
is this Sunday, March 2
2 pm. - 4 p.m.
520 Delaware Avenue, 2nd Floor.
Philadelphia.

It's the big red building at the corner of Spring Garden and Delaware.
There's street parking - so carpool, and bring a friend! And coffee! And your energy!
RSVP here: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/actioncenter/event/view/?id=10235
And for more questions, dwambach@hillaryclinton.com.

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Thank you for your help.

...And here's to the day when the war is over.

Hannah Miller