TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE FOR FULLY FUNDED WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
NOW
Call your members of Congress now toll free at 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or
800-614-2803.
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Usually when we contact our members of Congress our great challenge is to get
policy hostile Republicans to understand that even in THEIR districts we have
enough people opposing them to threaten their reelection. But we
certainly expect our OWN representatives to listen to us. So why is
it that STILL some of our most progressive House members are not fully behind
Barbara Lee's amendment for a fully funded withdrawal of our troops from the
hopeless sandpit in Iraq. You would be astounded by the names of
some of your own representatives who have not yet committed to taking a real
stand to end this war.
Is it any wonder that the popularity of Congress has dropped almost 10 points
in the last month, back down to 28%. The
American people elected a Democratic majority in both houses to take ACTION,
not to just wring their hands and pass the buck of
responsibility. The essence of exercising power is to take
responsibility. When pushed, Bush will say, "So, I'm
responsible, whatcha gonna
do?" Yet, on the most drop dead critical issue of our time, the
Democratic so-called leadership seems to be resigned to casting token votes of
limp protest, quiet whimpers of timid discomfort, with no actual force of law.
Oh sure, it's all very well to take pot shots at lying attorney generals and
call for resignations. It's perfectly fine to issue subpoenas and
demand testimony under oath from self-evident liars, to root out corruption and
everything else, and even to grandstand while doing so, assuming they manage to
stick to their guns in doing that. All those things must be done
too. But NONE of those things require any actual bravery, just a
majority in Congress.
Are our Democratic bigwigs only capable of setting up some kind of "We
told you so" for 2008, without actually risking responsibility for real
policy change? Are they triangulating their bets just in case the
situation in
The difference between the supplemental war appropriation and some other bill
to stop the war is that this is a measure that the president NEEDS from
Congress. This is not a bill he can veto and count on having enough
remaining rubber-stampers to scuttle an
override. This may in fact be the ONLY meaningful chance we will
have in the next two years to keep from inheriting the military policy disaster
in
The last poll we've seen shows that MORE than 90% of Democrats (and even a
quarter of self-identified Republicans) OPPOSE dragging on a continuation of
the
ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/funded_withdrawal.php
What kind of backroom conspiracy is in place to allow
votes on non binding resolutions, but NOT on amendments which would actually DO
something. Why has Nancy Pelosi taken all options of any actual
consequence off the table? Of course the president will veto
anything that even suggests a check or a balance. What kind of phony
activism is it to avoid a confrontation, where one is absolutely unavoidable
and inevitable, and without which the outrages will just continue to grow more
outrageous? That is all the more reason why we must put forth the
strongest position possible.
Wasn't this demonstrated yet again today with the president adamantly refusing
to let any aide be questioned under oath and on the record about their stacking
of the deck in the justice department? Hear the words of old Nixon
hand, and new Bush stonewall master, Fred Fielding telling Congress to run
along and play like nice little children, refusing to negociate
about anything more than informal and constrictive bull sessions.
"Such interviews would be private and conducted without the need for an
oath, transcript, subsequent testimony, or the subsequent issuance of subpoenas
. . . We trust and believe that the accommodations we offer here, in addition
to what the Justice Department has provided, should satisfy the committee's
interests."
Who do they think they are talking down to? Many of our senators and
representatives are themselves experienced and seasoned prosecuting attorney
generals from their own states. What disrepect
for the prerogative of Congress! Isn't it perfectly obvious that
they are counting on having enough crony judges in place to abort any credible
investigation, in the case of a subpoena showdown? Are we the only
ones who are reminded of IDENTICAL conditions imposed on the 9/11 commission
about the testimony of Bush and Cheney, and what chumps the commissioners were
at that time to submit to such a charade of an investigation?
Let us also remember that Alberto Gonzales is the same attorney general who,
when the scandal of the NSA wiretapping first broke, stated that the White
House was willing to listen to the "suggestions" of
Congress. Suggestions?!?! Hello
. . . Congress passes LAWS, the laws of the land. What we have here
is a contempt for Congress, and their Constitution
role, so endemic that nothing can possibly heal the body politic but a stone
cold confrontation.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/funded_withdrawal.php
And the best and most important place to start is by demanding that any new
Iraq appropriation be DEDICATED for the mission of getting our armed forces out
of the Iraq civil war, where they are the primary obstacle to achieving the
political settlement, which is the only possible solution. Please
call your members of Congress and tell them this is the moment. This
is the time. Do it now.
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be
ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.
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