Afghanistan and Iraq are vastly different countries, with cultures stretching far back in human history. However, the US wars on these two societies have been waged with frighteningly similar results: hundreds of thousands dead, infrastructures destroyed, age-old cultures uprooted, veterans and their families left to fend for themselves.

We- students, veterans, and ordinary Americans- will be happy to see and end to eight years of failed policies and fabricated fears. In the midst of the current economic crisis, we cannot afford to spend billions of our tax dollars on war year after year. We believe in change, and change must come to both Washington and to Wall St. The change we want to see in 2009 is an end to the US war on Afghanistan. After all, as it has been said: "No Afghani citizen ever gambled my life savings away."