July 31, 2026

Save Your Soul, Your Conscience And Your Sanity.
Stop the bombings!

Author Ann Wright served 29 years in the U.S. Army / Army Reserves and retired as a colonel. She also was a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and served in U.S. embassies in Afghanistan, Grenada, Kyrgyzstan, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Uzbekistan. She resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the Bush administration’s war on Iraq. She is a member of Veterans For Peace and is the co-author of “Dissent: Voices of Conscience.”

Nineteen years ago in February 2007 during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress, including a “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” (to the tune of the Beachboys song “Barbara Ann”) recitation by Senator John McCain, I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to Conscience to Those Who WOULD Bomb Iran.”

Now almost two decades and four presidential administrations later (Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump), the article is virtually the same, except that U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy pilots have now actually dropped bunker busting, “smart” bombs on Iran’s nuclear program facilities and, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the U.S. has successfully targeted with bombs and missiles over 1,700 locations in Iran, including civilian infrastructure of roads, bridges and water treatment plants, as well as military targets. …

Popular Resistance published this article, directed at active duty personnel in the U.S. Armed Forces, on July 23. It can be read in its entirety at: Stop bombing Iran.