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**SallyIsNice5** · 02-16-2007, 08:33 PM

This was just a message.... the meaningful steps will be to vote "no" to proposals that ask for additional funding of the war.

OK, let's have a look at this. If the war is in fact wrong, and must be ended, then why screw around with this non-binding nonsense and get down to the business of forcing an end to it?

The big debate will be whether cutting funding means leaving our troops hang out to dry or if it only forces us to set a timeline for withdrawl before the current allocated funds dry up.

And rather than get on with that important debate, we've pissed around and produced this non-binding Hallmark "We hate the war" greeting card.

We will hear about this debate in the press ad nauseum for months. I suppose if we want to be active citizens, we can write our representatives about how we feel about the legislation when it is proposed.

Our legislators - or at least a majority of them - allegedly already know that the majority of Americans want the troops out. That's what their leadership campaigned on.

So if that is their actual belief, why are they wasting time and money on this nonsense instead of actually putting into action what they said their constituents want?

Matt

02-16-2007, 08:33 PM	#11
SallyIsNice5 Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 553 Senior Member	This was just a message.... the meaningful steps will be to vote "no" to proposals that ask for additional funding of the war. OK, let's have a look at this. If the war is in fact wrong, and must be ended, then why screw around with this non-binding nonsense and get down to the business of forcing an end to it? The big debate will be whether cutting funding means leaving our troops hang out to dry or if it only forces us to set a timeline for withdrawl before the current allocated funds dry up. And rather than get on with that important debate, we've pissed around and produced this non-binding Hallmark "We hate the war" greeting card. We will hear about this debate in the press ad nauseum for months. I suppose if we want to be active citizens, we can write our representatives about how we feel about the legislation when it is proposed. Our legislators - or at least a majority of them - allegedly already know that the majority of Americans want the troops out. That's what their leadership campaigned on. So if that is their actual belief, why are they wasting time and money on this nonsense instead of actually putting into action what they said their constituents want? Matt
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