Some press reports have suggested that the U.S. could begin airstrikes in Iraq at any time. Our best opportunity to stop this is to press President Obama to come to Congress for authorization, as required by the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, before using military force. Pressing the President to come to Congress was essential to stopping the U.S. from going to war in Syria last year. California Democrat Barbara Lee and Virginia Republican Scott Rigell have initiated a bipartisan letter to President Obama, urging him to respect the Constitutional requirement to come to Congress for authorization before using military force. Urge your Representative to join the Lee-Rigell letter by signing our petition. The petition will be automatically delivered to your Representative when you sign.

I am starting this petition because we could be spending our money on creating jobs for our people instead of spending money on the Middle East, which will never be at peace. So stop being involved in the Middle East.

As a Marine I believe that America should return to the pre-Bush Doctrine of military engagement only when a country has attacked America and it is in our direct National Security interests. We learned from Vietnam to not trust politicians waging wars. We forgot when Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer and their co-conspirators in conservative media and talk radio engaged to push the false war in Iraq and to castigate any who dared to challenge the immoral nature of that war and the new "Pre-emptive strike" mindset of the Bush Doctrine.

Over the past decade, American taxpayers have sunk hundreds of billions into military action in Iraq. The $816 billion that we’ve spent on 10 years of war in Iraq could otherwise have been spent on domestic programs that badly need investment. For example, those dollars could have financed a well-rounded domestic program, including: provided 4.75 million students Pell Grants of $5,550; equipped 4 million households with wind power; hired 65,000 new police officers; supplied 5 million veterans with VA medical care; and paid 100,000 elementary school teachers each year for a decade. Instead, such programs have suffered from significant budget setbacks and austerity while our nation spent billions on military intervention in a complex and unstable conflict. This is not our fight. Americans overwhelmingly oppose renewed military operations in Iraq: a recent poll from Public Policy Polling showed that 74 percent of the public are opposed to sending combat troops back into Iraq. In contrast, the majority of Americans do support investment in domestic programs like public education, jobs, food assistance, health care, and renewable energy and the environment. With our domestic economy still struggling, our veterans in dire need of care and support, and millions of people struggling to make ends meet at home, now’s not the time to commit more funds to war. The President and Congress must look for ways to be helpful in the Iraq crisis that don’t involve combat operations and the cost to our nation that goes along with them. We need to show that we’ve learned our painful lesson, that sending American troops to the Middle East will not make the situation better.

Because all of my people in Iraq are in danger, because our country is destroyed now, because we lost hope in the future, and because I want to see a better Iraq, with a better future for our youth.

Clearly the results of military endeavors throughout the world have caused untold agonies, sorrow, and destruction. It is absurd to continue to repeat the same actions, just with "better" weapons, and believe that we will create a better and safer world. I believe it is past time to try another avenue, allowing our citizens to lend their weight to Peacekeeping rather than arms bearing. Call me, we will talk.

Fallujah. Mosul. Baghdad. Hearing these names again sends a chill down my spine. As a Marine who served in Iraq, I know well the bloody costs paid by Americans and by Iraqis in these and so many other cities over the past decade. I have friends who to this day remain on the front lines of a sectarian conflict that is tearing their homeland apart. And I am saddened to see the renewed and growing violence once again gripping Iraq. But I also know that the solution to the chaos in Iraq is not another American military intervention. The president was right to end the Iraq War in 2011, and it would be a tremendous mistake to restart it now. The United States and Iraq have already paid dearly for George W. Bush’s disastrous decision to launch the Iraq War. With Iraq once again descending into violence, we must not repeat the mistakes of the past. No military intervention, whether a massive invasion like the one in 2003 or the limited airstrikes some are calling for today, will solve the deep and complex challenges Iraq is facing. Iraq’s problems can only be solved by Iraqis, not American bombs. Launching another military intervention in Iraq would only throw more fuel on a fire that is raging. Even worse, it would once again risk American lives in a fight that is not ours and that we cannot win. Over the past few days, the news has been filled with stories of a swift insurgent advance through northern Iraq. Sunni militants, under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), have taken over city after city in northern Iraq. These militants, fresh from the fight in neighboring Syria, have made dramatic progress, capturing American-made weapons and supplies left behind by the fleeing Iraqi security forces. Their advance is fueled in no small part by the repressive sectarian policies of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The situation may get worse before it gets better, but one thing is clear: American bombs are not the solution. Even more chilling than watching the violence in Iraq is listening to the pundits here at home. The very same men and women who lied to the American public and sent thousands of my fellow men and women in uniform to their deaths are now leading the charge for another military intervention. Many of these men should be in jail; none of them should be listened to. If my friends in Iraq are to ever find peace, if their children and their grandchildren have any chance of growing up without the butchery of beheading knives and the carnage of car bombs, peace will come through negotiation and settlement, as it briefly did post-2007, and not through an American strategy of choosing sides, choosing winners and losers, and indulging in the self-satisfactory, self-indulgent, guilt-erasing, yet illusory, medication of bombing.

Iraq is an articial nation put together as a French Mandate (Colony) after WWI. It will always be unstable until each of the three groups (Kurds, Shite and Suni Arabs) which were stuck together get their own sovereignity. Let the end pay itself loss of another American life. Our last lengthy venture thee cost oone trillion dollars and solved nothing.

I own a business in the US and can't trade my products directly with Cuba due to the embargo. This is an economic failure for US business.

The reason for this petition is only to let the American government know that perhaps U.S.A. government is concerned with Islamic republic in Iran atomic activity , but more than 80 million Iranians concern is human rights and only human rights .

I am a member of Military Families Speak Out. Our goal has to bring our family members home & the have them taken care of once they get home. The war in Afghanistan has been going on longer than any other in American history & our troops have been continually recycled through the war zones on repeated deployments. It is time for Pres. Obama to keep his PROMISE to bring these honorable Americans home NOW.

President Obama is under pressure to deepen U.S. military involvement in Syria's sectarian civil war. But as President Obama recently said, “Why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force after we’ve just gone through a decade of war at enormous cost to our troops and to our budget?” In particular, President Obama is under pressure to approve the transfer of "manpads," or shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapons, to Syrian insurgents. Transfer of these weapons to Syrian insurgents, who are fighting alongside groups affiliated with Al Qaeda, would increase the risk of terrorist attacks against civilian aircraft throughout the region, including in Israel. U.S. transfer of these weapons to Syrian insurgents would also violate international law, and undermine international agreements against the proliferation of these weapons that were initiated by the United States. Urge President Obama and Congress to resist pressure for deeper U.S. military involvement in Syria's sectarian civil war by signing our petition.