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Mission Accomplished...but no exit strategy and no timetable
UPDATE: Today, on the FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" FIASCO, our un-elected President defied the will of the people and vetoed funding our troops who are in a combat zone. Democrats fulfilled their promise to the American people and demanded an exit strategy, a timetable for getting our troops out of the Iraq quagmire. Today, Bush made the decision to cut off funding for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan rather than provide Congress with an exit strategy.
George Bush wants to cut funding off for our troops because he does not want to outline a sound exit strategy.
By doing this he will be vetoing the will of the people, who overwhelmingly are sick of being lied to and seeing soldiers die for nothing, and he is committing our soldiers to an indefinite involvement in a civil war with no purpose for the United States and no exit strategy. He seems to be doing this on the 4th anniversary of his "Mission Accomplished" statement, which must have referred to the accomplishment of turning American foreign policy into nothing more than a gravy train for Halliburton and sacrificing our soldiers and our war against al-Qaeda in the process. Great mission, great accomplishment...
VoteVets.org is responding to Bush's veto of the will of the people and common sense with the following video:
exit strategy | Failed foreign policy | Iraq quagmire | mission accomplished | VoteVets.org
Listening to our troops: from VoteVets.org
Bush and most Republicans are ignoring our troops. They ignored our troops when they needed body armor. They ignored our troops when they were lying in filth at Walter Reed. They ignore our troops when they return home and need Veterans Benefits.
MoveOn.org and VoteVets.org has teamed up to give voice to our troops and to get America to listen. This is one of their videos of one of America's soldiers telling us what he thinks of the Iraq quagmire:
If you want to help get this video on TV, please donate here.
Iraq | Iraq quagmire | troops | John Bruhns | MoveOn.org | VoteVets.org
Listening to our Veterans: VoteVets.org and MoveOn.org Team Up for Veterans
Republicans keep yammering on and on about "supporting the troops." But when it actually comes to listening to our troops, supporting them with proper equipment, or supporting them when they come home as Veterans, they fall far short of their rhetoric. Hell, this administration was even forcing soldiers to pay their own way from bases to their home towns to visit their families until Al Franken and Air America Radio started a movement, taken up by Daily Kos and much of the progressive blogsphere, to donate airline miles to our troops to get them home. This embarassed Bush enough that suddenly the administration changed the policy.
Bush isn't listenting to the soldiers or Veterans regarding Iraq either. VoteVets.org and MoveOn.org are giving voice to our Veterans in a project called VideoVets: Bring Our Troops Home. Here's what they are doing in their own words:
Every day at MoveOn we get letters from military families and veterans who're outraged that the president hides behind the troops to justify his policy—a policy that's leaving tens of thousands of them stranded in the middle of an unwinnable civil war. We talked to our friends at VoteVets.org about their members, who felt the same way. We realized we had to help give these folks a platform to speak out.
Over 700 MoveOn members around the country volunteered their time to interview and videotape the veterans and military families. Then we put them up on our website—and on YouTube—for you to watch.
Iraq quagmire | Iraq war | Veterans | MoveOn.org | VoteVets.org
Iraq War Vets SLAM Republicans...Democrats Watch Gleefully
Recently I wrote about an Idaho Republican who let his chief of staff insult Iraq War vets who were opposing the war. Well, here's another story about VoteVets.org and it sure seems like they know how to face up to Republican chickenhawks. I suspect we will be hearing more and more of this kind of thing.
This was sent to me by Americans United for Change
Veterans Group Speaks Out on War
Congressional Democrats Let VoteVets.org Talk for Them, BluntlyBy Lyndsey Layton and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, February 8, 2007; A04When Iraq war veteran Jon Soltz accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of "aiding the enemy," the Democratic senators gathered around him yesterday did not wince. Nor did Democrats object when Soltz, the chairman of a group called VoteVets.org, called President Bush and Vice President Cheney "draft dodgers."
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VoteVets.org appears to be the most active group trying to influence the debate about the president's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq...
The veterans are selling a blunt message: The Bush strategy in Iraq is a failure, and adding troops sends more young men and women to their deaths. If you care about the military, they told lawmakers, vote against the troop increase. Legislators who are stalling debate on the matter are "cowards," they said.
Iraq | Iraq quagmire | withdrawal | Congress | VoteVets.org
