Ask The Department of Defense to Help Animals in Iraq

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Ask The Department of Defense to Help Animals in Iraq

Ask The Department of Defense to Help Animals in Iraq

The Department of Defense is no friend to animals. Under policies enacted by the DOD, helpless critters living in the conflict are often caught in the crosshairs—literally—and treated like enemies of the state.
American soldiers are forbidden from adopting a stray animal they befriended in Iraq.

Pet and stray dogs are frequently killed in an attempt to prevent rabies although research finds that these culls are both ineffective and inhumane.

No prohibition or punishment for cruelty towards animals exists in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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Please visit the Department of Defense website and express your concern for animals in Iraq. Specifically, you may want to ask the DOD to enact the following policies:
add an anti-cruelty clause to the Uniform Code of Military Justiceshift resources to a vaccination strategy for addressing concerns about rabies in Iraq adopt a program that would permit soldiers to adopt a pet from Iraq
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Then fill out and send the form on the right to let us know you spoke out for animals in Iraq.

Be sure to ask your friends and family to take action, too.

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Petition created on June 3, 2009