The following statement was sent to President Bush as a result of the passage of Article 42 at Falmouth Town Meeing.

Special thanks to Mike Tork, Hilary Morrison, Paul Rifkin, and Lillia Frantin for its passage. 

“Falmouth residents would benefit directly and indirectly from international cooperation and a diffusion of tensions
in the Middle East. Falmouth taxpayers have paid almost $71,000,000 dollars for the war in Iraq, as of August 20th, 2007.
Monies that might have been available for local needs such as education, health care, libraries, transportation, town
infrastructure and care for returning Falmouth veterans have instead gone to fund a war that many Falmouth residents
do not support. Further, the deployment of Massachusetts National Guardsmen to Iraq leaves both Massachusetts and
the Town of Falmouth dangerously shorthanded should a disaster occur. Therefore, we ask that the Town Clerk join
with the 300 U.S. cities and towns that have already voiced their protests and send a letter on behalf of the Town of
Falmouth to our congressional delegation and to the President of the United States respectfully requesting that Congress
set goals to end the occupation of Iraq and begin a safe, orderly withdrawal of all our troops. Further, we ask that the
letter request that the United Nations monitor the process of military disengagement and de-escalation to ensure that it is
conducted in a manner that does not further jeopardize the troops currently in Iraq, and that the UN organize a peaceful
reconstruction effort. Finally, the Town of Falmouth respectfully requests that returning veterans are given all the support
and care to which they are entitled to repair any physical or mental damage caused by this war, and that Congress support
legislation aimed at funding improved physical and mental healthcare benefits to military personnel."