A message from MoveOn.org

[kentuck]

Dear MoveOn member,

No matter what happens in Iraq, the Bush administration and John McCain
always have an answer: 6 more months.

When the "surge" began a year ago, they told America things would get
better by September. In September, they said we'd know more by spring. And
this week, General Petraeus is on Capitol Hill asking for--you guessed
it--6 more months. Senator McCain and President Bush couldn't agree more.

They don't have a plan for getting us out of Iraq. So they're trying to
sell endless war on an installment plan.

Six more months won't change anything--except the body count and the price
tag. It's critical that the news media and voters know that the
Bush-McCain strategy in Iraq is to keep us there indefinitely--6 months at
a time. So we've put together a video exposing their "6 month" gambit.
Please check it out and pass it on:

Watch the video

What exactly are they saying?

Yesterday John McCain said the same thing he's been saying for the last 5
years: We have to stay in Iraq, but "success is in reach."

And General Petraeus told the Senate that it would be fall before he could
say whether, or when, to draw down troops below the "pre-surge" levels.
(Specifically, he recommended a 45-day period for "evaluation" starting in
the summer, followed by an open-ended "assessment" process to decide what
to do next).1

It all boils down to this: Demand more time and promise that victory is
just over the horizon. Unfortunately, according to experts from the Iraq
Study Group, the "surge" has gotten us "no closer to being able to leave
Iraq than a year ago."2

More than 4,000 Americans are dead. We've spent almost $500 billion on
this war. A year after the "surge" began, Americans are no safer, and
there is no end in sight.

With the Bush-McCain wait-and-see strategy, we can expect to hear "6 more
months" for years and years to come.

We can't just sit by. We've got to speak out now--please help spread the
word.

Thanks for all you do,

--Nita, Justin, Eli, Marika, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

[VP505]

1. It seems to me

that the 6 more month meme they keep pushing and lack of any exit plan is for the purpose of running out the clock allowing Bu$hCo to exit and dump the whole mess in the lap of the next President, likely one of the Democrat candidates.

[Hokie]

2. This is a link tot he video

http://tinyurl.com/6pkj3n

MoveOn does some nice videos. This is one of the best.

[pnorman]

3. "Prosperity is just around the corner",

said President Herbert Hoover, as the country sank into the Great Depression of the 1930s.

pnorman