U.S. veterans speak out on climate change and national security
Partnership for a Secure America — a foreign policy think-tank that’s calling for a climate bill for the sake of our national security — has released a signed statement calling for “a clear, comprehensive, realistic, and broadly bipartisan plan to address our role in the climate change crisis.”
The statement is signed by 32 heavy-hitters from national politics and the military and from all over the political spectrum.
At the same time, the organization Vote Vets (a pro-military organization founded by veterans of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan) is launching a new national TV ad campaign. From its website:
Featuring Iraq War veterans, (the ad) makes the case that oil profits to the Middle East fund the same terrorists we’re fighting and closes with the line that “It’s not just a question of American energy, it’s a question of American power.”
Vote Vets has also sent more than 100 veterans to Washington D.C. this week to push for passage of a bill. They are working with a coalition of other veterans and security groups called Operation Free.
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