[Peace-discuss] guess who co-sponsored Kucinich's bill for Afghanistan withdrawal?

[C. G. Estabrook]

David--

You're right. We need to ask him to co-sponsor Rep. Lee's HR 3699, "which
prohibits any funding to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan," although
it's something of a typical Democrat cop-out -- like opposing "escalation" but
not the war (cf. "time lines," etc.).

More importantly, Tim also did not vote against Iran sanctions (HR 2194), 
another Obama administration neocon policy. Only 12 representatives voted 
against the new sanctions (three of them Republicans) last Tuesday, while 412 
voted in favor.

How would you have voted on HR 2194?

Regards, Carl

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David Gill wrote:

> [Fwd: [Peace-discuss] guess who co-sponsored Kucinich's bill for Afghanistan 
> withdrawal?] David Gill docgill37 at yahoo.com Sat Dec 19 16:26:28 CST 2009
> 
> Carl,
> 
> Yes.  I would also be a co-sponsor of Rep. Barbara Lee's H.R. 3699, which 
> prohibits any funding to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan.  Given
>  what you've recently told me of Mr. Johnson, I was surprised to see that
> he's not among the 27 co-sponsors of that bill.
> 
> Best wishes, David
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ---- From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>  To: David Gill <docgill37 at yahoo.com> Cc: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at 
> anti-war.net> Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 4:39:03 PM Subject: [Fwd: 
> [Peace-discuss] guess who co-sponsored Kucinich's bill for Afghanistan 
> withdrawal?]
> 
> David--
> 
> If you were elected Representative from the 15th Illinois CD, would you 
> co-sponsor and/or vote for these bills?
> 
> Regards, CGE
> 
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Peace-discuss] guess who 
> co-sponsored Kucinich's bill for    Afghanistan withdrawal? Date: Fri, 18 Dec
>  2009 17:27:19 -0500 From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
> 
> Kucinich measure to end Afghanistan war gains cosponsors
> 
> By Sabrina Eaton, The Plain Dealer
> 
> December 15, 2009, 2:40PM
> 
> Dennis Kucinich's proposed congressional effort to end the Afghanistan war 
> has gained a dozen bipartisan cosponsors during the week the Cleveland 
> Democrat has circulated it.
> 
> Here's the cosponsor list provided by Kucinich's office: John Conyers, Jr.; 
> (D-MI); Ron E. Paul (R-TX); Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD); Bob Filner (D-CA); Walter
>  Jones, Jr. (R-NC); Lynn Woolsey (D-CA); Edward Whitfield (R-KY); Michael 
> Capuano (D-MA); Timothy V. Johnson (R-IL); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ); Eric 
> Massa (D-NY); and Alan Grayson (D-FL).
> 
> "At a time when 15 milllion people are unemployed we cannot continue spending
>  hundreds of billions of dollars on disastrous wars," Kucinich said in a
> press release. "My resolution will force a debate and vote on the war in 
> Afghanistan. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority to start and
>  end wars."
> 
> Kucinich's office said a similar privileged resolution to end the war in 
> Pakistan will be introduced at a later date. Privileged resolutions require a
>  House of Representatives debate within 15 days of introduction.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at 
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