Veterans Boost Democrats' Iraq War Exit Efforts
When Representative Patrick Murphy stood up at the House Democratic Caucus meeting Tuesday to urge support for a bill mandating a timeline to withdraw US forces from Iraq, the boyish Pennsylvania lawmaker urged his colleagues to vote their conscience. But as several lawmakers wiped away tears, he concluded with a more emotional appeal "for those 19 guys I served with who died."
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107S.shtml
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: First Stop the Bleeding
"In the coming weeks a Congress that is willing to assert its prerogative as a coequal branch of government has a unique opportunity to stop the needless deaths and maiming of US troops in Iraq and bring them home in an orderly way this year. To do that, it must use its constitutionally mandated authority - the power of the purse," say the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107T.shtml
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107S.shtml
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: First Stop the Bleeding
"In the coming weeks a Congress that is willing to assert its prerogative as a coequal branch of government has a unique opportunity to stop the needless deaths and maiming of US troops in Iraq and bring them home in an orderly way this year. To do that, it must use its constitutionally mandated authority - the power of the purse," say the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107T.shtml
rudkla - 22. Mär, 00:14
