McGovern Leading the Charge - No More Money for War!
September 12, 2006
Represenative Jim McGovern (D-MA) at Camp Democracy on "PDA Day." Listen to Rep McGovern live from Camp Democracy: Click here.
Progressive Democrats of America has been working and organizing support for HR 4232 since Rep. McGovern introduced this important bill in November of 2005.*
Rep. McGovern spoke at the PDA "Get out of Iraq" Town Hall meeting the day after he introduced HR 4232. We continue to work for its passage as a top legislative priority. We urge you to continue organizing support for HR 4232 and to ask your Congressional member to co-sponsor the bill.
PDA is committed to cutting off all funding for deployment of US troops in Iraq and for the removal of all funding for the occupation of Iraq. Sign the Petition NOW!
Please sign the online petition here and send it to your friends:
http://pdamerica.org/petition/mcgovern-petition.php
H.R. 4232 would end all funding for the deployment of U.S. troops in Iraq.
HR 4232 would in no way prohibit nor interrupt U.S. non-defense funding in support of Iraq's social and economic reconstruction, including support for democratic institution-building, elections, and the restoration of Iraq's infrastructure.
HR 4232 provides for the safe, orderly, and honorable withdrawal of the United States from military operations in Iraq. By continuing U.S. support for the economic and social reconstruction of Iraqi society and the financial and material needs of Iraqi security, it maintains our moral and political obligations to the Iraqi people, while concretely promoting, supporting, and providing for greater multilateral engagement in these serious tasks.
* Read Rep. McGovern's letter to PDA.
An overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people want U.S. troops to leave their country. More than 2,600 brave American soldiers have died in Iraq since March, 2003, and tens of thousands more have been wounded and scarred for life, 94% of them since the president declared, "Mission accomplished." Tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens have been killed.
Congress has appropriated more than $300 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq, as requested by President Bush, far more than the White House and Pentagon predicted would be necessary to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein and replace it with a new, stable government in Baghdad. Simply stated in monetary terms, estimates are that we are spending $8 billion per month in Iraq with no end in sight. That equates to $2 billion per week, or $267 million per day, or $11 million per hour.
Small wonder that 60% of the American people are opposed to current U.S. policy in Iraq.
PDA is working hard to change this failed policy.
Congress has given the Administration blank checks and unchecked authority and continues to abdicate its responsibilities. They haven’t done their job, which is to legislate, conduct oversight, and shape the policy of this Nation. The reality of our policy in Iraq is characterized by corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, and self-delusion.
Please sign the petition and vote for candidates in the November general election who support HR 4232 and will speak out to cut off all funding for deployment of US troops in Iraq and for the removal of all funding for the occupation of Iraq.
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PDA is performing an invaluable service to our country and the world by focusing public attention on the deepening crisis in Iraq, and by insisting that the Democratic Party take the lead in bringing a responsible end to the U.S. occupation." -
David Cortright, Co-founder, Win Without War
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