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The Feingold-Reid bill that would end funding for the war in Iraq and to safely redeploy our troops will be brought up for a vote in the Senate tomorrow. One of the cosponsors of the bill is Tom Harkin.
The American people voted last November against the occupation in Iraq. It is about time Congress draws the line in the sand.
Here's a statement from Sen. Feingold...
I appreciate the Majority Leader’s work to bring up the Feingold-Reid legislation for a vote. The American people deserve to have the Senate go on record about whether or not it wants to end our misguided mission in Iraq and safely redeploy our brave troops.It will be interesting to see how the Presidential Candidates vote on this. Right now, Dodd, Edwards, and Richardson have come out in support for it (Kucinich and Gravel would probably support it also.).
That leaves Hillary, Obama, and Biden who will have to vote on this. I just hope they don't vote against it and then say, "Well, it wasn't going to pass, so I voted against it, but I don't think we should be in Iraq." It is that defeatist attitude that has gotten the Democratic Party where it is.
TPM and Bob Geiger have more on the story.
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Take the Pledge
All Presidential Candidates should make pledges like those below. If they
refuse, then you should refuse to vote for them.
1. No More Oil Wars.
2. Work for independence from foreign oil on day one.
3. No more wars for corporate profit.
4. No more secret deals for $4 per gallon gas.
5. No more Chicken Hawks promoting wars of choice when they themselves avoided combat.
6. Make government green--if you can't make what you have the most control over
green, I don't care about your plans to make the country green.
7. No more torture.
8. No more lying about torture.
9. No more re-defining torture.
10. No more drunken hunting.
11. No more secret deals with big corporations to divide up the spoils before the war even starts.
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