FEINGOLD TO CONTINUE PUSH TO END OPEN-ENDED MILITARY MISSION IN IRAQ

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FEINGOLD TO CONTINUE PUSH TO END OPEN-ENDED MILITARY MISSION IN IRAQ
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2007-06-13 17:09. Congress

Feingold to Offer Feingold-Reid Legislation as an Amendment to Defense Bill

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Russ Feingold announced today that he will continue his effort to end the open-ended military mission in Iraq and safely redeploy U.S. troops out of the country. Feingold said he and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will offer the Feingold-Reid bill requiring troops to be redeployed by March 31, 2008, after which funding for ongoing military operations, with three narrow exceptions, would end. The bill will be offered as an amendment to Defense Department authorization legislation that the Senate is expected to consider as early as the end of June.

“Congress took a step backwards last month when it gave President Bush a blank check to continue his open-ended mission in Iraq,” Feingold said. “We need to keep the pressure on the President and supporters of his disastrous Iraq policy, and the way to do this is by voting on legislation that will end the mistake in Iraq. We should not wait until September to change course, as some have suggested, and we should not be satisfied with proposals that sound good but won’t actually end the war. The way to end this disastrous war is to pass the Feingold-Reid legislation to safely redeploy our troops. No more Americans should die unnecessarily for a war that has over-burdened our military and weakened our national security.”

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[TahitiNut]

1. It'd only take 41 Senators to block any funding measure.

All the rest is sheer kabuki.

The lowliest Private in Iraq shows more courage and integrity than our "elected representatives"!

[ClassWarrior]

2. Never underestimate the power of theater.

It helped stop Vietnam.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

3. .