An Open Letter and Call to Conscience to the Soldiers of Fort Huachuca from Veterans For Peace (VFP) Tucson and Southwest Witness is in today's edition of the Arizona Daily Wildcat in Tucson, AZ. This letter may also be viewed at www.vfpchapter10.org       

“How long are we going to continue down this road to nowhere?”

~ Major General John Batiste

To honor and support the troops, to end the occupation in Iraq and to bring attention to the torture training at Ft. Huachuca, Veterans For Peace, Tucson and the Southwest Witness has published an Open Letter and Call to Conscience to the soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca and citizens of the United States of America. Major General John Batiste, has referred to the war in Iraq and as “the road to nowhere.” With 2007 being the deadliest year in Iraq and over 3800 American servicemen and women dead, not including suicides, the Veterans are warning it has not only been “the road to nowhere”, but "the road to death". For thousands upon thousands more it has been the road to severe head injury, lost limbs, PTSD, paralysis, blindness, exposure to uranium 238 and the list of catastrophic injuries continues. Veterans For Peace and Southwest Witness are also deeply concerned with the imprisonment of Fr. Louis Vitale and Fr. Steve Kelly for raising the issue of torture training at Ft. Huachuca. Torture is deplorable and illegal. Simply put it is a crime against humanity. The Southwest "Weekend of Witness", Saturday and Sunday, 11/17-18/2007 include a "Teach In Against Torture" at Pima Community College and a demonstration against torture at the Main Gate of Fort Huachuca, on Sunday, November 18, 2007. For complete information please visit www.southwestwitness.org and www.tortureontrial.org