New Plan for Fully-Funded Iraq Withdrawal (pass it on)

[Peace Voyager]

Hello Community,

I would like to add to this encouraging effort below, a call for a US initiated international cease fire.

Thank you,

Colleen Fernald

[Original Message]
From: Tim Carpenter, for PDA
To:
Date: 3/8/2007 1:08:50 PM
Subject: New Plan for Fully-Funded Iraq Withdrawal (pass it on)

We’re on the march Thursday morning. That’s when a growing group of Congress members is unveiling a plan for a fully-funded, systematic withdrawal of U.S. soldiers and military contractors from Iraq. The plan would provide all resources needed by military commanders to execute an orderly withdrawal by a date certain.

The proposal is being discussed at a 9:30am Capitol Hill news conference, featuring Reps. Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey, Maxine Waters, Jerry Nadler, Keith Ellison, Maurice Hinchey and others. There can be no complaints that this plan in any way endangers U.S. troops.

Antiwar forces are uniting behind this plan, which is expected to be proposed as an amendment to Bush’s $93 billion Iraq supplemental appropriation request. Instead of funding an endless war, Congress will be offered a way to fund an orderly end to the war -- thereby heeding the call voters sent them last November.

PDA urges its members and allies to continue contacting Congress by phone (toll-free 1-888-851-1879) or other means to support a fully-funded withdrawal. If such an amendment is NOT adopted, urge Congress to vote “NO” on the Supplemental, and an unending occupation.

Listen to PDA Advisory Board member and Progressive Caucus co-chair Barbara Lee explain the latest strategy in a brand new podcast talk specifically to PDA.
https://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1014

Contact other labor, civil rights and peace groups you are affiliated with – such as MoveOn or any others – to urge them to rally behind “fully-funded withdrawal within a set timeframe.”

Click here to see or share comments about how things went with the calls into Congress.

https://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1011#comments

Progressive Democrats of America is a grassroots PAC that works both inside the Democratic Party and outside in movements for peace and justice. Our goal: Extend the victory of Nov. 2006 into a permanent, progressive majority. PDA’s advisory board includes six members of Congress and activist leaders such as Tom Hayden, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and Rev. Lennox Yearwood. More info: https://pdamerica.org