Edwards: Congress should keep sending bills with a binding timetable for ending the war

[draft_mario_cuomo]

He is right. Congress should keep sending bills back instead of caving in after the first veto. Make * cave and end the war. If he cannot get funding to continue the war he will have no choice but to end the war.


==Edwards said he opposes a precipitous withdrawal but would like to see all combat forces out of Iraq over a period of about a year. But he also outlined contingency steps he favors to guard against the violence spiraling out of control once U.S. forces leave.==

==In urging the Congress to resist approving any measure short of a clear timetable for withdrawal, Edwards said Democratic lawmakers should do everything possible to keep pressure on Bush.

=="If they continue to submit bills to the president funding the troops with a timetable for withdrawal, eventually the president's going to have to make a decision about what to do because he's not going to have the money to continue the war," he said. "He's going to have to start deciding what to do with the troops, which I think will force a redeployment out of Iraq."

Edwards specifically said Democrats should not vote for the measure offered by Republican Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana and John Warner of Virginia, calling on Bush to prepare a new strategy, even if that were the only measure that could gain enough support to pass the Congress. "It's not enough," he said.==

Read the rest at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701500_2.html?nav=rss_email/components