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House Leadership to Give War Funding to Bush Successor!
The House of Representatives will vote as soon as tomorrow -- Thursday, May 8 -- on an additional $162.6 billion for the war and occupation in Iraq! Amazingly, the bill includes $66 billion for fiscal year 2009. This means the funds for the occupation will keep flowing well into the next
administration, allowing the new president a free hand to continue the war and occupation with little or no accountability to Congress until next spring. This is an appalling abdication of responsibility.
At a time when money is urgently needed in our communities, the new bill would bring the total for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to an unimaginable $860 billion. By including FY09 funding, the Democratic Party House leadership is effectively taking the war off the congressional agenda for the rest of this year. This might be our last opportunity to fight a war funding bill before the next president takes office and the new Congress is seated.
*YOUR CALL TODAY IS CRUCIAL.*
Call your representative NOW: 202-224-3121
Tell them to vote "NO" on the $162.6 billion war funding measure.
Tell them it's long past time to bring all the troops home and end the war.
Tell them to stop playing political games while lives are being lost.
If you're keeping score at home, you may have seen that UFPJ is not alone in promoting a No vote today, and has been joined by AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, US Labor Against the War, American Friends Service Committee, Peace Action, Code Pink, and many others. Meanwhile Democracy for America is off on election nonsense, True Majority is building a True Minority, and Moveon.org has sent out a vaguely worded Email suggesting that Yes votes on the other amendments are at least as important as No votes on the war $. Win Without War, on the other hand, sent out a clear Email, but has made comments in the press suggesting we should all just give up. WATCH what these organizations do, and what your representative does.
Please let us know you called by clicking
here: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/modinput4.php?modin=138
Don't let the House Democratic leadership take us for granted. If this funding bill passes, Congress will have handed Bush $860 billion for the illegal war and occupation of Iraq. With this funding bill, they are laying the groundwork for the next president to continue the occupation. We must send them a message: The voters will remember in November!
*Background*
House leadership met behind closed doors on Monday evening to concoct a plan that will keep the war going into the next president's first term. They plan to add a $178 billion war funding amendment to a Veterans Administration Appropriation bill (H.R.2642) and bring it to the floor for a vote on Thursday, May 8. In addition to the funding amendment, they will vote separately on two other amendments. One will provide billions for unemployment benefits and veterans education benefits; the other measure addresses war policy, including a goal for troop withdrawal by December 2009, troop readiness requirements, and bans on permanent bases in Iraq and torture. It is an open secret that the Senate will drop the measure on war policy -- leaving only the war funding with no strings attached. [It is another open secret that torture and permanent bases were always illegal and have been repeatedly banned already.]
*Impact of War on the Iraqi People*
The U.S. war/occupation in Iraq has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, devastated families and ripped apart the infrastructure of Iraq. One striking fact is that more than 4.7 million Iraqis (in a nation of 27 million people) have been displaced by war and occupation. It is the world's
fastest growing refugee crisis, and represents the largest refugee flow in the Middle East since the displacement of Palestinians in 1948.
Peace,
Leslie Cagan
National Coordinator, UFPJ
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Hagel Warned of Impeachment
a year ago over the President's imperial attitude and threatened veto of a bill with a timeline and August 31, 2008 cut off of war funding. Cheney meets Senator Hagel's definition of an official worthy of impeachment during an ABC interview with Raddatz.
History is repeating..
Republican Threatens To Work With Democrats on Anti-War Bill
By ELI LAKE March 26, 2007
When asked yesterday on ABC what he meant by his comments to the magazine about impeachment, the senator said, "Any president who says, ‘I don't care,' or ‘I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else,' or ‘I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed' — if a president really believes that, then there are —what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that."
[RADDATZ: Two-thirds of Americans say it's not worth fighting. CHENEY: So. RADDATZ: So? You don't care what the American people think? CHENEY: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.]
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Mr. Hagel yesterday said he was particularly angry about the president's reaction to the House passage of the Iraq supplemental budget, which the president said in his radio address this weekend he would veto if it crossed his desk. That bill gives the White House $24 billion more than it asked for to fund the troop surge in Baghdad and Anbar, but it also mandates a timeline and a cut off of war funding after August 31, 2008.
http://www2.nysun.com/article/51130?page_no=2
There are 535 of them and 300 MILLION of us. GET ON THE PHONE!
And the fax, and the email. Repeatedly.
The math is a no-brainer. These Capitol Hill cowards CAN be EASILY overwhelmed and FORCED to act on the will of the people.
All we need to do is remember our responsibility as citizens. Freedom is not free, remember?
Reject the apathy.
Resist the "they'll just ignore us" cop-out. It's EXACTLY what they're counting on.
JUST DO IT.
It will take you 30 seconds.
NO MORE MONEY FOR THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF IRAQ.
NO VOTES FOR ANYBODY IN CONGRESS WHO VOTES TO CONTINUE IT.
PASS IT ON.
Latest video commentary:
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