[Peace-discuss] How to get out now

[Ricky Baldwin]

I also think such a bill could include diverting funds
from war directly to veterans' benefits.  Up the ante.
 Sort of killing three birds...

But the basic point is a winner.  It's really not that
hard to do this.

Ricky
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [William Lind writes in Counterpunch today that it
> is not difficult] to 
> design legislative language that both ends the war
> and supports the 
> troops. All the Democratic majorities in Congress
> have to do is 
> condition the funding for the Iraq war with the
> words, "No funds may be 
> obligated or expended except for the withdrawal of
> all American forces 
> from Iraq, and for such force protection actions as
> may be necessary 
> during that withdrawal." If Bush vetoes the bill, he
> vetoes continued 
> funding for the war. If he signs the bill, ignores
> the legislative 
> language and keeps fighting the war in the same old
> way, he sets himself 
> up for impeachment.  What's not to like?
> 
> For the Democrats, what's not to like is anything
> that might actually 
> end the war before the 2008 elections. The
> Republicans have 21 Senate 
> seats up in 2008, and if the Iraq war is still going
> on, they can count 
> on losing most of them, along with the Presidency
> and maybe 100 more 
> seats in the House. 2008 could be the new 1932,
> leaving the Republican 
> Party a permanent minority for twenty years. From
> the standpoint of the 
> Democratic Party's leadership, a few thousand more
> dead American troops 
> is a small price to pay for so glowing a political
> victory.
> 
> Ironically, the people who should be most desperate
> to end the war are 
> Congressional Republicans. Their heads are on the
> chopping block. But 
> they remain so paralyzed by the White House that
> they cannot act even to 
> save themselves. The March 2 Washington Times
> reported that
> 
> Republicans in Congress -- including most who have
> defected from 
> President Bush's plan to send reinforcements to Iraq
> -- have closed 
> ranks and are prepared to thwart the Democrats'
> continued efforts to 
> undermine the war strategy
> 
> All but one of the seven Senate Republicans that
> backed the anti-surge 
> resolution in their chamber say they will not
> support any funding cuts.
> 
> The likely result of all this Washington dodging is
> that events on the 
> ground in Iraq and elsewhere will outrun the
> political process. That in 
> turn means a systemic crisis, the abandonment of
> both parties by their 
> bases and a possible left-right grass roots alliance
> against the corrupt 
> and incompetent center. In that possibility may lie
> the nation's best hope.
> 
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