I thought I'd shared this from Democracy in California:
How To End The War? Cut off the funds, that's how. Trouble is, Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the only Democrat saying it.
There's one solution here, and it's not to engage in a debate with the President, who has taken us down a path of disaster in Iraq, but it's for Congress to assume the full power that it has under the Constitution to cut off funds. We don't need to keep indulging in this debate about what to do, because as long as we keep temporizing, the situation gets worse in Iraq.We have to determine that the time has come to cut off funds. There’s enough money in the pipeline to achieve the orderly withdrawal that Senator McGovern is talking about. But cut off funds, we must. That's the ultimate power of the Congress, the power of the purse. That's how we'll end this war, and that’s the only way we’re going to end this war. This is a new world. It's time that we started acting like it. It’s time that we reflected new thinking --
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It's not just a matter of cutting the funds; you have to curtail the activities of the 'contractors' - remember what happened when they cut the funds to those shadowy agencies who were installing democracy in Nicaragua.
The war will go on . . .
Nobody on either side of the aisles wants to (1) be accused of "not supporting the troops" or (2) abandon their lobbyist, financial, and corporate benefactors who have made billions as war profiteers
I think your right. Things usually have to get completely out of hand before the U.S. is willing to admit to a massive blunder and pull out. But with Kissinger now saying that the war is unwinnable, I think we're almost there.
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