Progressive Democrats For America Angry with Failure of Democratic Leaders on Iraq
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 24, 2007
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CONTACT: Progressive Democrats For America
Jeff Cohen, Communications Coordinator jeff@pdamerica.org
Tim Carpenter, Executive Director
tim@pdamerica.org
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PDA Angry with Failure of Democratic Leaders on Iraq
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WASHINGTON - MAY 24 - There are ways Congress can end the bloody, unwinnable occupation in Iraq, and ways not to. The approach of the Democratic leadership has utterly failed – as they now prepare to give President Bush $95 billion more war funding through a bill that no longer has any timelines for troop withdrawal.
In this 11th hour, PDA is contacting Congress to say:
No blank check for an occupation that the overwhelming majority of Iraqis and U.S. troops in Iraq want ended.
Continued no-strings-attached funding means Iraq becomes the Democrats’ war.
How can you oppose a troop escalation while funding it in full?
And PDA is reminding Democrats of the only effective ways of ending the Iraq occupation:
1) Using the power of the purse to cut off funds to Iraq -- except those needed to safely withdraw our troops (and for humanitarian/reconstruction aid to the Iraqi people).
2) Using their investigative power to probe White House deceptions and distortions that propelled the Iraq invasion and occupation, and to impeach if necessary.
Commented PDA National Director Tim Carpenter: “While we’re distressed with Democratic leaders, PDA stands with the progressive stalwarts in Congress who continue to battle for an end to this occupation.”
Rep. Raul Grijalva, a PDA Advisory Board member, issued this statement today:
"I have opposed funding this war from the beginning…. The previous supplemental, The Iraq Accountability Act, though flawed and at odds with many of my beliefs, represented a chance for hope…. But I cannot in good conscience support this new version of an Iraq war funding bill…a paper tiger that will give the Administration an unfettered extension to this ill-conceived occupation, and an implied sanction by this Congress of the war.”
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