Kennedy Calls for Congress to limit funds and the number of US soldiers sent to Iraq- In a press conference on 1-9-07, Sen. Ted Kennedy called for Congress to stop Bush’s plan to increase the number of troops in Iraq. His bill and Rep Markey’s companion bill will require a vote of approval by Congress before Bush can increase the number of troops or spend additional money to send additional troops. Congress has done this before in Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, and Nicaragua.
Please ask your senators and representative to cosponsor the Kennedy/ Markey bills to require Congressional debate and approval before Bush can increase the number of troops in Iraq.
You can read Kennedy’s speech - Escalation Is Not the Answer - at truthout.org By Senator Edward Kennedy Speech at National Press Club, Tuesday 09 January 2007. Below is part of it.
“The legislation that we will introduce today is brief but essential. It requires the President to obtain approval from Congress before he sends even more American soldiers to Iraq. And it prohibits the President from spending taxpayer dollars on such an escalation unless Congress approves it.
Our proposal will not diminish our support for the forces we already have in Iraq. We will continue to do everything we can to make sure they have all the support they truly need. Even more important, we will continue to do all we can to bring them safely home. The best immediate way to support our troops is by refusing to inject more and more of them into the cauldron of a civil war that can be resolved only by the people and government of Iraq.”

BUSH SHOULD BE IMPEACHED

Bush and his colleagues have shown themselves to be liars and thieves out to gain power and money for themselves and their campaign contributors- oil companies stopping Hussein from gaining market share by selling Iraqi oil; stopping Hussein’s contracts with Chinese, Russian, and French oil companies instead of US companies for oil exploration; weapons and reconstruction companies with no bid cost plus contracts that defraud us of billions of dollars while not giving body armor or Hummer armor to our troops and while taking away the clean water, sewage treatment, electricity and civil order from Iraqis. Divide and conquer has been the neocon strategy – to split up Iraq into warring factions and stop Iraq from being a player in the struggle over the control of mideast oil.