[Peace] Fwd: See this in the NY Times?

Fri Jan 18 10:26:39 CST 2008

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> From: Belden Fields <abfjem at yahoo.com>
> Date: January 18, 2008 9:53:46 AM CST
> To: a-fields at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Fwd: See this in the NY Times?
>
>
> --- "Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action"
> <moveon-help at list.moveon.org> wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:42:43 -0800
>> From: "Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action"
>> <moveon-help at list.moveon.org>
>> To: "Belden Fields" <abfjem at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: See this in the NY Times?
>>
>> Sign the petition
>> Dear MoveOn member,
>>
>> Did you see the New York Times editorial today?
>> Here's how it starts:
>>
>>   President Bush is discussing a new agreement with
>> Baghdad that would
>>   govern the deployment of American troops in Iraq.
>> With so many Americans
>>   adamant about bringing our forces home as soon as
>> possible, a sentiment
>>   we strongly share, Mr. Bush must not be allowed to
>> tie the hands of his
>>   successor and ensure the country's continued
>> involvement in an
>>   open-ended war.
>>
>> MoveOn sounded the alarm about the disastrous
>> agreement early on, and more
>> than 150,000 MoveOn members have signed a petition
>> demanding that Congress
>> stop President Bush from tying us down in Iraq.
>>
>> Since then Representative Rosa DeLauro and Senator
>> Hillary Clinton have
>> introduced legislation to do just that. This
>> morning's editorial in the
>> Times will build momentum for action--now we need to
>> push it over the top.
>> If we can reach 250,000 signatures this week, the
>> petitions will go
>> straight to Congress on Monday.
>>
>> Clicking here will add your name:
>>
>>
> http://pol.moveon.org/endless/o.pl?id=11923-6682267-mkMcvR&t=94
>>
>> The petition reads:
>>
>> "Congress must not let President Bush commit America
>> to an endless
>> military presence in Iraq."
>>
>> Our original email about this petition, with more
>> details, is here.
>>
>> Please sign today.
>>
>> Thanks for all you do.
>>
>> --Nita, Justin, Wes, Joan, and the MoveOn.org
>> Political Action Team
>>   Thursday, January 17th, 2008
>>
>> P.S. Here's a longer excerpt from the editorial:
>>
>>                    Don't Tie the Next President's
>> Hands
>>
>>   President Bush is discussing a new agreement with
>> Baghdad that would
>>   govern the deployment of American troops in Iraq.
>> With so many Americans
>>   adamant about bringing our forces home as soon as
>> possible, a sentiment
>>   we strongly share, Mr. Bush must not be allowed to
>> tie the hands of his
>>   successor and ensure the country's continued
>> involvement in an
>>   open-ended war.
>>
>>   Given what's at stake in Iraq in terms of American
>> and Iraqi lives lost,
>>   national treasure and broad national security
>> interests, the
>>   negotiations on any new agreement must be fully
>> transparent--which they
>>   are not. The national debate must be vigorous and
>> thoughtful, and then
>>   Congress must vote on whatever deal results.
>>
>>   ...
>>
>>   Formal negotiations won't start until February and
>> few details are
>>   known, but already the two sides are laying down
>> markers. The Iraqi
>>   defense minister, Abdul Qadir--apparently
>> tone-deaf to the American
>>   political debate--told The Times's Thom Shanker
>> that his nation would
>>   not be able to take full responsibility for its
>> internal security until
>>   2012 or be able to defend its own borders from
>> external threat at least
>>   until 2018.
>>
>>   That is far too long for most Americans, but not
>> for Mr. Bush, who is
>>   quite comfortable leaving American troops fighting
>> in Iraq for another
>>   decade.
>>
>>   ...
>>
>>   Mr. Bush is rushing to complete a deal before he
>> leaves office in
>>   January 2009. That is just as reckless and
>> irresponsible as most of his
>>   decisions regarding Iraq. America's interests
>> demand that his successor
>>   has maximum flexibility to plot a course, which we
>> hope includes a quick
>>   and orderly withdrawal of troops.
>>
>>   One way to ensure that flexibility is to make sure
>> that Congress
>>   approves any deal with Iraq, as leading Democrats,
>> including Senator
>>   Hillary Rodham Clinton, are insisting. The time
>> for Congressional
>>   intervention is now.
>>
>> The whole editorial is here:
>>
>>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/opinion/17thu1.html
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