Debate on Troop Withdrawals on Hold

[slipslidingaway]

http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=118780

"Congressional Democrats have put on the back burner legislation ordering troops home from Iraq and turned their attention to war-related proposals that Republicans are finding hard to reject.

The legislative agenda marks a dramatic shift for party leaders who vowed repeated votes to end combat and predicted Republicans would eventually join them. But with Democrats still lacking enough votes to bring troops home, the party runs the risk of concluding its first year in control of Congress with little to show for its tough anti-war rhetoric...

Delayed until early next year is debate on the $190 billion the military says it needs to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through September 2008.

There is little doubt that Democrats are biding their time and deliberating their next step. Democrats are divided on whether to continue paying for a war they oppose, or cut off the money and be attacked politically for refusing to support the troops..."

[ClassWarrior]

1. Okay, let's put it back on the front burner.

Peace rallies nationwide October 27!! Visits to Congressmembers' offices in the meantime!!

:bounce:

There, now wasn't that simple?

NGU.

[slipslidingaway]

2. I wish it was that simple, looking back on some old stories

from 2002/2003 tonight, here is one that I ran across.

Millions Protest Possible War with Iraq
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june03/protests.html

"Around the world, millions of demonstrators turned out in hundreds of cities on all continents the weekend of Feb. 15. The show of opposition to war with Iraq may have been the biggest in history-- a feat made easier by coordination on the Internet..."

[ClassWarrior]

3. Yeah, I guess we all should have stayed home. Didn't change things one iota.

:eyes:

NGU.

[slipslidingaway]

4. Just saying it is not that simple...

;)

[ClassWarrior]

5. I'm just saying it is. And that people keep forgetting that.

:hi:

Love your song, by the way.

NGU.

[slipslidingaway]

6. Hope I'm wrong :) and thanks about the song, one of the

songwriters must be a Kucinich fan, smart lady :)


:hi:

[jmp]

7. "... and predicted Republicans would eventually join them."

They did. They joined the Dems in continuing to fund the war. :eyes: