[Peace-discuss] Fw: Urge Congress to Vote Now Against Afghanistan Troop Increase

[E. Wayne Johnson]

How about "Read the Constitution"?

Neither Obama nor any other president has the legal authority to declare 
war.

Indeed the Congress needs to step on the air hose.


On 12/2/2009 3:17 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
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> --- On *Wed, 12/2/09, Just Foreign Policy 
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>     From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
>     Subject: Urge Congress to Vote Now Against Afghanistan Troop Increase
>     To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
>     Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 4:10 PM
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>     Just Foreign Policy
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>     *Urge your reps to support a debate and vote on President Obama's
>     troop escalation proposal /NOW/*
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>     Take Action
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>     Dear Jenifer,
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>     Last night, President Obama announced plans to send 30,000 more
>     U.S. troops to Afghanistan, escalating the military conflict,
>     instead of working to end it. Details of an exit strategy were
>     restricted to a date for troop removal to begin, and a diplomatic
>     strategy for reconciliation between Afghanistan's warring factions
>     was barely mentioned.
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>     But Congress can still reject or limit the troop increase. To do
>     this, however, Congress would have to move up the debate and vote
>     on the emergency war funding that the Pentagon is preparing, which
>     typically would not be considered until sometime in the spring
>     after many of the additional troops have been sent to Afghanistan.
>     If Congress waits to debate the issue, it will have little power
>     over the deployment of additional troops.
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>     *Urge your Representative and Senators to support a debate and
>     vote now on the President's plans to send 30,000 more troops to
>     Afghanistan, using the following link:*
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>     http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/warfunding
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>     Anti-war Representatives are pressing for an early vote on funding
>     for more troops so President Obama's policy can be judged by
>     Congress before thousands of additional troops are sent into
>     combat, the Politico reports [1]. "Let us have this debate before
>     he moves forward," Rep. Jim McGovern said. "I'd like it to be
>     before we escalate one single American troop over there."
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>     For most of the Iraq war, Congress typically waited until late May
>     or June to approve emergency war funding. The last war
>     supplemental was approved in mid-June. If Congress waits until May
>     or June to consider President Obama's plans, most of the troops
>     may already be in place, making it much harder for Congress to
>     oppose or limit their deployment. If Congress acts now, it can
>     stop or limit funding for the President's troop increase by a
>     simple majority vote.
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>     *Please join us in urging Congress to act now to oppose this
>     military escalation.*
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>     References:
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>     1) "Anti-war lawmakers want a vote," David Rogers, Politico, 12/1/09
>     http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30087.html
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