Our small group of concerned American business people from all walks of life, the Committee for the Withdrawal of American Forces in Korea, live on the Eastern Seaboard from Maryland to Maine. We are tired of seeing our hard-earned American tax dollars being used for such fruitless efforts as maintaining American forces in the Republic of Korea.

We were horrified about the so-called Ohno Incident during the 2002 Winter Olympics where a Korean short track skater childishly protested his loss of a gold medal. The entire country of Korea rallied behind this one disgruntled athlete and waged an anti-American protest that lasted several months. Then, in June during the World Cup soccer event, the Korean soccer star Ahn Chong-hwan and his fellow team mates performed a disgusting ritual featuring the Korean skaters his was an irrational and highly immature display but unsurprisingly, well accepted among Koreans. Of course, the world now sees Korea in a much different light.

Then again in June 2002, while Koreans were cheering on their home team in the World Cup, a tragic accident occurred involving a heavy engineer tracked vehicle running over two schoolgirls walking along a roadway. No one in Korea seemed to notice the incident. They were too caught up in World Cup Fever. However, when the commotion over the World Cup died sown, Koreans took notice of the incident and took to the streets in protest. The Korean government did nothing to stop the protests or to placate the demonstrators. In fact, the Korean government, under the leadership of President Kim Dae Chung, even seemed to fan the flames of anti-Americanism.

The US government has duly apologized for the tragic traffic accident. Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, has duly apologized. President Bush issued his due apology. The commander of the US 2nd Infantry Division apologized, as did hid boss in Seoul. It seems that the Korean protesters, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, uses the incident of the girls's deaths as a platform to spur their anti-American feelings. The Korean presidency, in democratic elections on December 19th, was won by the liberal (radical) candidate, based on protestors's wishes. Mr. Roh Moo-hyun, a former activist who had formerly demanded the withdrawal of American forces protecting his country, wants a more equal partnership. The Committee for the Withdrawal of American Forces in Korea, our non-profit organization, agrees. We would like to see more equal partnership between Korea and the United States of America. Starting with the withdrawal of US forces from Korea or a more equal partnership.

The US contributes directly and indirectly over $14 billion American dollars per year for the upkeep of US forces in Korea compared to about $410 million US dollars contributed from Korea. Japan's cost sharing is much more equal, as is Germany's. It is fair and just to state that the level of economic wealth and democratic freedom that Korea enjoys today is largely due to the suffering of America's young military boys from 1941 until now. As you may well know, the US played a major role in defeating Japan in WWII, thus driving Japanese colonialism and tyranny from Korea on August 15th 1945.

America again came to Korea's rescue when Kim Il Sung attacked South Korea on June 25th 1950. America sent troops and military equipment, along with 19 other nations in a UN measure to defeat the North and later China. Americans have been defending your country for over 60 years!

What has Korea done for the US? We (America) is your number one trading partner and the largest importer of Korean products. China is a close second and Japan ranks third in a deal brokered by the US in 1965 which, in essence, forced Park Chung-hee to open relations with Japan in return for billions in aid, relief, loans and international assistance that brought your country into the 20th century. Your people come to our country and live largely in Korean-only communities. They take everything they can get and return little or nothing to the country that gives them life, with little exception. The 1984 riots in LA were a pivotal event that showed Americans just how greedy and unsympathetic Koreans living in our own country are. Americans are asking why this is so.

The Committee for the Withdrawal of American Forces in Korea is organizing an east coast boycott of all Korean-made products from electronic items produced by Daewoo, Samsung, LG, etc., to automobiles produced by Hyundai, Daewoo and Kia. We will show Americans in our areas the video footage of supposed 'non-violent, non-anti-American protests' on our local news television and post fliers with those pictures in the neighborhoods where businesses sell Korean-made products. We have encouraged over 1,000 prominent businessmen and international investors, many of whom have served in the Korean War (1950-1953) or have had family members who have served in Korea during and after the war, myself included, to write letters to their congressmen and senators demanding an immediate end to stationing American forces in Korea and a general boycott on Korean-made products and sanctions on American dollar investment in Korea.

Please send our young service man and women home fro Korea. Let them suffer not one moment more of the humiliation of an ungrateful nation. Let them suffer not one moment more of the fear and anguish that they might be beaten or stabbed or slashed by Koreans when they leave their bases to spend American dollars in your country.

Enough is enough. Send them home now.

Sincerely,

Richard Moore III Board of Trustees Committee for the Withdrawal of American Forces in Korea Boston, Massachusetts, USA