There have been repeated reports that Israel plans to bomb Iran, and Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney implies he would support such a war. A Pentagon study find that it would involve the United States in a wider regional war.

President Obama's goal of greater engagement between Americans and Cubans is endorsed by two-thirds of our country and is the most effective way to foster democracy, friendship and mutual understanding. However a determined minority of mostly Republican Cuban Americans opposes all travel and successfully exploited the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to create bureaucratic obstacles to licensing and renewal of people to people programs. [See http://cubapeopletopeople.blogspot.com/2012/08/people-to-people-in-bureaucratic-danger.html ] Fortunately this problem has been addressed, at least in part and after unconscionable delay licenses are being renewed and granted. The President has the power to permanently open the door by authorizing a general license (no application required) for all purposeful non-tourist travel–just as he did for Cuban Americans, universities and religious organizations. By ending discrimination, the President will free every American to participate in special interest guided tours and professional and cultural exchanges or to travel with their families and independently, using less expensive public transportation, rental cars and privately owned bed and breakfasts. To encourage nationwide participation, all US travel agents and tour operators must be allowed to promote and book transportation, accommodations and programs instead of only a near monopoly of 250 mostly Cuban American Florida-based Travel Service Providers.

Much of the hate directed at the US throughout the world comes from its perceived support of Israeli expansion into Palestinian territory. Billions of dollars are poured into a tinder box of ancient hatreds, cultures of violence and illegal land annexations. Stop feeding the fire and save our money for solving our OWN domestic problems.

Our dependence on foreign fuel has involved us in multiple foreign wars and threatens the very nature of our society. Stop our dependence on foreign fuel now and free our society and economy from the horrible drain that such monitoring, policing, crippling investment causes. Develop environmentally and economically viable alternative fuels that would allow us to break this downward spiraling behavior of having to depend often times hostile foreign concerns.

We are concerned we will be pulled in a war with Iran that can easily escalate to the use of nuclear weapons. All it will take is Israel to provoke an attack. War game scenarios predict dramatic escalation within the region from this point, as well as attacks in Europe and the US.

Require tht President of the United States to veto any proposed law authorizing military and/or foreign aid to a country condemed by a majority vote of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

As a veteran with a step-son deployed, I am very concerned with the rise in active duty suicides (one per day), veterans committing suicide (300 per month), the number of troops dying every month in Afghanistan (on average one per day). These numbers aren't even newsworthy anymore. Peace is not treason.

President Obama has declared the War on Terror over with the killing of Osama Bin Laden. End the wars of aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan which is costing us upwards of 3.7 trillion Dollars and thousands of innocent lives.

This petition is about ending military aid to Israel. All of us in the US, as well as in Israel and the Occupied Territories, have been adversely affected by our financial support of Israel's Occupation. It mortgages our children's future to support an illegal Occupation while damaging our reputation, and further endangering our troops, in the Middle East.

The simple reason there are no jobs here is the fact our government allows goods shipped from China. The biggest retailer in America sells 80% goods that come from Communist China. Petition our government to ban all goods imported from china. Stop supporting a Communist country who fought us in the Korean war. And supported North Vietnam in the Vietnam War

My son Jabin Bogan has been imprisoned in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico since April 17, 2012 for simply making a wrong turn. Jabin is a truck driver who was delivering cargo to the El Paso, Texas area on the 17th when he inadvertently ended up on the U.S./Mexico border. Although U.S. border agents directed him to enter the "yellow zone" on the Mexican side and make a "U" turn, Mexican authorities arrested him for carrying several boxes of live ammunition among the other cargo he was hauling. None of which was designated for Mexico which his manifest documents clearly show. What also is clear is that so far, we've only gotten "lip service" from our local elected officials in Texas. Meanwhile Jabin has spent four months in a Mexican prison, wondering why his government does not care to get him freed.

Watching the deterioration of diplomacy with Iran, and hearing threats of war, I've felt deeply concerned that our country and its allies are not making use of proven conflict-resolution techniques such as Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. All peoples, especially in Iran and Israel, stand to lose enormously if full-scale war breaks out, and it is our duty to do all we can to foster a peaceful resolution.