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Kalbfleisch Will Participate in OFC - Chicago

David Kalbfleisch, Green Party candidate for U.S. House, will join other IVAW members this Monday to bring Operation First Casualty to Chicago.
David Kalbfleisch, Green Party candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 10th district, will join other members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) on Monday, June 18th to bring to the streets of Chicago the guerilla street theater event known as Operation First Casualty (OFC).

“The first casualty in war is truth,” says Kalbfleisch, a veteran submarine officer who was told by his commanding officer a month and a half before the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq that his ship was going to war, even though President Bush was still on television saying war could be avoided.

Iraq veterans in desert camouflage, armed with imaginary weapons, will patrol the streets of Chicago as they did in Iraq. They will take enemy fire, detain people, quell rioters protesting them, etc. IVAW executed OFC in New York City on May 27th, and the performance was sufficiently realistic that multiple on-lookers called 911.

“Operation First Casualty will show people in Chicago what goes on in Iraq every single day,” said Aaron Hughes, President of the Chicago IVAW chapter and a former Army sergeant who spent over a year in Iraq. “Our soldiers aren’t liberating people; they are enforcing martial law.”

Kalbfleisch’s political platform includes a call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq and the prohibiting of the U.S. from using “security contractors” (a.k.a. mercenaries) in Iraq or elsewhere. “My participating in actions like Operation First Casualty is one way that voters can be sure I will make good on my promises if elected,” he says. “Talk is cheap. Unlike many other people seeking public office, I’m actually doing something in my present capacity to advance what I think is right.”

-- To view photos from OFC - D.C., visit: nyc.indymedia.org/or/2007/05/86539.html
 
 

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