Peace Action

Exit Iraq

Urge your Senators to demand an exit strategy from Iraq.

On April 6, the Senate Appropriations Committee will begin consideration of the $82 billion Supplemental Appropriations bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We expect the same bill to be considered on the Senate floor soon thereafter.

We need a Senator to offer an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations bill that does the following:

Enunciates a clear American policy that U.S. troops should return home as soon as possible;
Demands the President provide an exit strategy;
States that the United States will not maintain permanent military bases in Iraq.

The following Senators need to be encouraged, as national legislative leaders, to offer an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations bill embodying these three principles:

Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey)
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois)
Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada)

Please use to form below to automatically contact these Senators and urge them to offer an amendment covering these principles.

February 09, 2010

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Dear Senator,

You are a national leader with the power to help our country extricate ourselves from the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq. As such, I am requesting that you fill the void that currently exists in regard to devising--or even debating--an exit strategy from Iraq. Before that Senate gives the President another dime of our money for Iraq, the Senate must take its responsibility as the world's foremost deliberative body seriously and discuss the merits of giving tens of billions of dollars to the Bush administration for war in Iraq and Afghanistan when the president has declined to outline a timeline for removing our troops from harm's way in those countries. I would ask that you put forward an amendment to the $82 billion Supplemental Appropriations bill that does the following: * Enunciates a clear American policy that U.S. troops should return home as soon as possible; * Demands the President provide an exit strategy; * States that the United States will not maintain permanent military bases in Iraq. Senator, it is imperative that we begin to call Mr. Bush to account and that the Senate act as a check and balance on the administration. Please exercise that power by offering an amendment of the type described above. Please let me know if you will offer such an amendment.
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