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==="Stand by the American Mission in Iraq" petition===
During the week before the Labor Day weekend, VFF executive director [[Pete Hegseth]] posted an appeal on the conservative [[Family Security Matters]] website, where he is a "contributing editor",<ref>Pete Hegseth, [http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=1287554 "Stay Active and Sign the Petition,"] Vets for Freedom (Family Security Matters), August 29, 2007.</ref> and sent out emails<ref>[http://chrisdickson.blogspot.com/2007/08/vets-for-freedom-sign-petition.html "Vets for Freedom - Sign the Petition!"] ''Chris Dickson'' Blogspot, August 29, 2007.</ref><ref>Spree, [http://www.israelated.com/node/22734 "Vets for Freedom: WEEK 8: Stay Active & Sign the Petition,"] ''Israelated'' Blog, August 29, 2007.</ref> linking to a petition posted on the VFF website that . The petition is to be presented to members of Congress when "General [[David Petraeus|Petraeus]] and the new U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, [[Ryan Crocker]], will report to Congress in mid-September [2007] on the American effort." It reads in part:<ref name="pet">[http://www.vetsforfreedom.com/tenweeks/petition.aspx Ten Weeks/Petition,] Vets for Freedom, accessed August 29, 2007.</ref>
:"Iraq is now the central front in the War on Terrorism - not because Americans want it to be but because America's enemies have said so and made it so. Al-Qaeda and Iranian-backed militias are determined to drive the United States out of Iraq. Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups would then use that country as a safe haven from which they can mount attacks on the U.S., its interests and allies.
