Keep the Faith Fight the Bush-Cheney-Rove Wars In the US & Out
Things still left to do now related to stopping the Bush wars inside the US & out…
Immigration Bill next big one  (if not already decided–doesn’t look like it’s tied-up yet, anyone use Thomas? 90% of those who check congress.org were opposed.)  Remember if you haven’t called your legislators yet that there is the sneaky “secret evidence” clause within.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/
More on the secret evidence clause http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/5/24/124841/036
Podcast summary of Immigration Bill (may have been revised?) http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2007/05/podcast_summary.html
The secret clause/amendment “gives the Attorney General unreviewable discretion to use secret evidence to determine if an alien is ‘described in’ the national security exclusions within immigration law. â€?
Secret Evidence Amendment on Senate Floor Cornyn Amendment Would Allow Use of Secret Evidence
Thursday, May 24, 2007…Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has introduced an amendment (#1148) to the on-going immigration debate that would deny lawful permanent residents the opportunity to become U.S. citizens based on secret evidence. This issue is of vital importance to the Arab-American community. ADC members are urged to immediately phone both their senators asking them to VOTE NO on the Cornyn amendment.
http://pol.moveon.org/stoppricegouging/
See Expert, Michael Schwatz’s comments on Boice/Somalia Oil–Alternet.org–along with Kucinich House Site.  if you need help or more, ask me. Also notice that recent Black delegation went to Darfur & found the US delegates & human rights groups often had some of the facts at least partly wrong. Stress to NC legislators that Blackwater, USA can’t represent us there!
Watch for Kucinich’s June 7th hearing (C-Span? Air America-or Democracy Now–Pacifica? NPR? and his site: http://www.kucinich.house.gov)
Mid-June vote on Gonzales
Votes on Supplemental in Congress May 24 07 http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll425.xml
Hopeful signs that point the way ahead. In the Senate, Democratic presidential candidates Dodd, Obama and Clinton stood firm against this weak bill and voted ‘no.’ In the House, they were joined by 140 Democrats. It’s not nearly enough. But it’s a start.
This is the number to call: 202-225-6401 to express disappointment.  DC pundits are already talking about how much this vote is going to “cost” everyone who did the right thing. They need to hear from us, today, that we support them. Click below to send a thank you note to the Democrats who voted right—and urge them to keep pushing for a quick end to the war.
http://pol.moveon.org/thankyou?id=10427-3611900-hoMY5Q&t=1
Sen. Dodd’s reason for NOT voting for the war supplemental http://dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/3910
- Show up at town hall meetings next week and tell Congress that you’re disappointed.
Congress is coming home now for Memorial Day recess. Senators and representatives will be holding town hall meetings and appearing at events. We need to send them back to Washington with a clear message: The public is unhappy with what they did.
Click below to call your senators and representative to see if they’re holding any public events next week. If they are, let us know and we’ll tell other MoveOn members in your state. This way we can tell our senators and representatives in person just how disappointed we all are.
http://pol.moveon.org/iraq/publicevents/?cp_id=522&id=10427-3611900-hoMY5Q&t=2
Yesterday, a New York Times poll found that opposition to the war is at a record high. And a large majority of the public—63 percent—wants us to set a date soon for withdrawing troops from Iraq.2
The country is with us. Together, we’ll make sure Congress catches up soon.
PUBLIC, REPUBLICANS DISOWN IRAQ WAR
Even as Congress moved to approve President Bush’s request for continued funding of the Iraq war through the end of this fiscal 2007, a major new poll released Thursday found that public disillusionment with the war has reached record highs. The poll came as Congress prepared to vote on a controversial bill. http://electroniciraq.net/news/3093.shtml
DEMOCRATS CONCEDE DEADLINE ON IRAQ PULLOUT
Congress gave in this week to the Bush administration and finalized an emergency supplemental war spending bill that does not include a timeline for withdrawal of. The legislation that the House of Representative is expected to vote on Today is the culmination of a battle between President Bush and the Democratically-controlled Congress since January.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3091.shtml
Why I voted No, Barbara Boxer
In March and in April I voted for emergency spending legislation that would have fully funded our troops in Iraq, but also changed their mission to a sound one. That mission would have taken our troops out of the middle of a civil war, and put them into a support role, training Iraqi soldiers and police, fighting al Qaeda, and protecting our troops.
The President will not agree to that.
As a matter of fact, the President won’t agree to any change in strategy in Iraq, and that is more than a shame for the American people; it is a tragedy.
It doesn’t seem to matter how many Americans die in Iraq, how many funerals we have here at home, or what the American people think. The President won’t budge.
This new bill on Iraq keeps the status quo. With a few frills around the outside, a few reports, a few words about benchmarks. While our troops die.
I understand why this particular legislation is before us today. It’s because this President wants to continue his one man show in Iraq. The President doesn’t respect this Congress or the American people when it comes to Iraq. He wants to brush us all off like some annoying spot on his jacket.
We have lost 3,427 American soldiers in Iraq. Of those, 731 (21%) have been from California or based in California. There are 25,549 American soldiers wounded.
And today, after several days of worrying and praying, we received the tragic news of the death of Private Joseph J. Anzack JR., 20 years old, of Torrance, California, who was abducted during a deadly ambush south of Baghdad almost two weeks ago.
One member of his platoon, Spc. Daniel Seitz, summed it up this way to the Associated Press: “It just angers me that it’s just another friend I’ve got to lose and deal with, because I’ve already lost 13 friends since I’ve been here, and I don’t know if I can take any more of this.”
And he shouldn’t have to. But with this bill, he will.
The first half of this year has already been deadlier than any six-month period since the war began more than four years ago.
In this month alone, 83 U.S. Service members have already been killed in Iraq.
Let me be clear, there are many things in this bill that I strongly support–many provisions that I actually fought for, for our troops, for our veterans, for our farmers, and for the victims of Hurricane Katrina–but I must take a stand against this Iraq war, and therefore I will vote no on this emergency spending bill.   Together, we will end this war. We may not have won yesterday’s vote, and I’m very disappointed that we didn’t, but with your help, that day is coming soon.