Feingold To Continue Push To End Open-Ended Mission In Iraq; Offer Feingold-Reid As Amendment

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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.”

Fact Sheet on Feingold-Reid

A Bill to End the Open-Ended Military Mission in Iraq by March 31, 2008

The Feingold-Reid legislation requires the safe redeployment of U.S. troops by March 31, 2008. The Senate is expected to vote on Feingold-Reid during the upcoming debate on the Department of Defense authorization bill.

More than half the Democrats in the Senate voted for Feingold-Reid when it was offered as an amendment in May. Given that a weaker version of this amendment got less than half as many votes a year ago, this recent vote was a significant step toward ending the war.

What the Feingold-Reid Bill Does:

The bill uses Congress’ constitutional “power of the purse” to force the President to safely redeploy troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008. After the troops are safely redeployed, funding will only continue for three specific and limited purposes:

· to conduct targeted counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations

· to protect U.S. personnel and infrastructure

· to train and equip Iraqi security forces

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1. Go Russ!

:applause: This is what they should have done last month when Dipshit vetoed the original funding bill. Change a comma, print it out again, and send it back.
And again
And again
And again ...


:patriot: :loveya:

[dogday]

2. I so appreciate his efforts and everything Russ does and he is my Hero

But I am afraid this open ended conflict will continue for the next 2 decades.