[Peace-discuss] DI: Protesters condemn troop increase in Iraq

[Ricky Baldwin]

What a craven coward he is.  Still it's an opportunity
not to be missed.  I'd still like to see a mass
hysteria develop where folks are writing letters to
the editor and reporters are asking him: you promised
to oppose the surge like the voters said they wanted,
now when are you voting that way?

Ricky
--- Robert Naiman  <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Johnson was on WILL this morning, stating his
> opposition to the surge.
> 
> He also said that he would not support cutting off
> the funding for the
> surge and claimed that this would be
> unconstitutional, separation of
> powers, blah, blah.
> 
> While this is nonsense, of course, I thought it was
> interesting what
> he didn't say: where he would stand on a resolution
> against the surge,
> which is likely to be the next vote he will have to
> face. Presumably,
> if he is against the surge, and there is a
> nonbinding resolution
> against the surge, he ought to vote for it.
> 
> On 1/12/07, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > By the way, shouldn't we write to Tim Johnson and
> > praise and stroke him for this?  And remind him
> what
> > we want him to do next ;-) ?
> >
> > More letters to the editor would be good now,
> too...
> > There have been some good ones lately ...
> > Ricky
> > --- Robert Naiman  <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Protesters condemn troop increase in Iraq
> > > Ill. Representative Tim Johnson expresses
> disdain
> > > for Bush's plan
> > > Sky Opila, Daily Illini, 1/12/07
> > >
> >
>
http://www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2007/01/12/News/Protesters.Condemn.Troop.Increase.In.Iraq-2628474.shtml
> > >
> > > [If you go to the web site there is a nice
> > > slideshow.]
> > >
> > > President Bush's public address Wednesday night
> > > launched protests
> > > across the country, including more than 487
> protests
> > > sponsored by the
> > > activist organization MoveOn.org, which aimed to
> > > demonstrate
> > > displeasure with Bush's plan to escalate the
> efforts
> > > in Iraq.
> > >
> > > One such protest took place at the Champaign
> County
> > > Courthouse
> > > Veterans Memorial, 101 E. Main St., in Urbana
> > > Thursday night. Roughly
> > > 30 people, many of whom are residents of the
> > > Champaign-Urbana area,
> > > assembled and held signs protesting Bush's
> public
> > > announcement of his
> > > plans to send more troops in support of efforts
> in
> > > Iraq.
> > >
> > > "There are hundreds of events happening across
> the
> > > country like this
> > > event today," said Robert Naiman, national
> > > coordinator for Just
> > > Foreign Policy, an independent and non-partisan
> > > mass-membership
> > > organization dedicated to U.S. foreign policy.
> > >
> > > Naiman said these events are trying to call on
> > > Congress to stop this
> > > decision by Bush.
> > > ...
> > > On Thursday, Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Ill., sent out
> a
> > > press release that
> > > expressed his opposition to the effort being put
> > > forth by Bush with
> > > regards to the war in Iraq.
> > >
> > > "I do not support a build-up of 21,500 American
> > > troops in Iraq
> > > because, in my view, it is not in the best
> interest
> > > of our country to
> > > contribute additional troops to this war,"
> Johnson
> > > said in the
> > > release. "The people of America and, most
> > > importantly, the 15th
> > > District made their collective voices heard Nov.
> 7."
> > >
> > > Protesters were outraged over Bush's speech
> because
> > > of the clear cut
> > > opposition in a majority of polls across the
> nation
> > > and a local
> > > referendum in Champaign County that voted on
> Nov. 7
> > > to remove troops
> > > from Iraq.
> > >
> > > Tim Grider, employee of the Veterans
> Administration
> > > for five years,
> > > drove 60 miles from his home in Indiana to
> attend
> > > the protest in
> > > Urbana.
> > >
> > > "It's the one small thing that I can do to voice
> and
> > > show my
> > > opposition," said Grider. "For every one person
> > > that's standing here,
> > > there is probably another 1,000 that want to be
> > > here."
> > >
> > > Naiman said he put the protest together in hopes
> of
> > > raising awareness
> > > with community members and pleading with them to
> > > contact their
> > > representative about stopping the escalation in
> > > Iraq.
> > >
> > > "Our goal is to remind our representative and
> our
> > > senators that we are
> > > deeply and passionately opposed to the
> President's
> > > policy, deeply and
> > > passionatly opposed to the war ... and we want
> > > Congress to take
> > > responsibility to stop the escalation," Naiman
> said.
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