SENATOR GRAVEL OFFERS A PLAN GUARANTEED TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ

[bemildred]

Washington, DC May 14th --- At 9:30 AM, at the National Press Club, Former United States Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Gravel introduced the United States Armed Forces Withdrawal From Iraq Act, a tough law with sobering consequences to finally get the Bush Administration's full attention. Gravel will also outlined in detail a very tough legislative strategy to close out the war by Labor Day and have American troops home by Christmas. The only requirement is congressional leadership.

The Senator said, "The Congress must stop acting alone on the war issue and bring the American People into the fray to adjudicate the constitutional confrontation between the Congress and the President, if we are to end the mess Bush created before January 2009."

"Constitutionally the Congress is the superior power. The President can only enforce the law and obey it like any other citizen. Congressional timidity over the years encouraged by political partisanship has unleashed an imperial presidency. When the presidency falls into the hands of a messianic true-believer like Bush the result is a morally questionable foreign policy and a domestic disaster threatening the nation's safety." The Senator pointed out.

The essence of the Gravel Plan: the congressional leadership must draw-out over days and weeks, if necessary, repeated daily cloture votes in the Senate and repeated daily veto override votes in both chambers to give American voters time to weigh-in and force two-thirds of their Senators and Representatives to vote to override the President's veto of the American will.

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[soothsayer]

1. I like this guy.

[quiet.american]

2. K&R. n/t

[Tom Joad]

3. His anti-war views deserve support.

Some of his other views are not what i would support.

[bemildred]

4. You take it where you find it.

He has the way the political system works right, but the Congress is not known for wanting to arouse the voters to action, so I'll have to see it happening before I start to believe.

[PBS Poll-435]

5. I will knock on doors for this guy.

Call him a kook, call him an attention whore. But seriously, I believe what this guy is selling, and I haven't felt this way since Big Dog.

[w4rma]

6. He's correct on this issue. He's the worst Democrat on taxes and the income gap. (nt)

[The Count]

7. He knows it because he's done it. It's how he ended the draft!

Got Nixon beat!

[jsamuel]

8. no offence, but Bush will just veto it

And we won't get 2/3 needed to override. It is in no way "guaranteed" to work. Republicans today are more loyal than those in the 70's. But I appreciate the idea.

[Bushfire]

9. What a fresh voice, and one with experience

I hope people will start to listen to him...

[loudsue]

10. K & R GOOD ON GRAVEL!!! He's one of the only TWO sane voices

on the Dem primary ticket.

People need to listen more to him & Kucinich, and less to the well-funded corporatists running, if we're EVER going to get this mess turned around.

Where in the hell are Clark & Gore??

:kick::kick::kick:

[Gregorian]

11. But what about Blackwater and Haliburton? Oh no!

If there were only one thing I liked about Gravel's plans, it's his giving power back to the American people.

I hear that common thread in his plans. Let the Americans make the decisions.


He's anything but a whacko. He's what America needs. But we'll see, as time goes on into this election.