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We just need one person to introduce the bill with courage, integrity, principles, and of course a safe seat.
As is very clear if you have been following the debate over the so-called ‘surge’ you have moral cowards and hypocrites like Senator Biden saying well we basically have to go along with the President because he has all the power. Which is ridiculous. Anyone who has studied the situation knows two things: One, the Congress has the power of the purse and can terminate the surge and terminate the war immediately if it so desires. I’m very happy to see Senator Feingold introducing his legislation to do exactly that. That’s what we need to support, not these cop outs by Senator Kennedy or what Biden is doing or Hagel or the rest of them. We need to cut off the funding. That was the way the Vietnam War, Cambodia, Laos Wars were all ended.
Second, building on the Nixon precedent, use impeachment: We need to pursue both prongs simultaneously. The same thing happened with Nixon. Congressman Bob Drinan, a friend of mine recently deceased, introduced the first bill to impeach Nixon over his bombing of Cambodia. So we have two prongs here, cutting of the funds, which Senator Feingold is starting and impeachment which must be started in the House. We need a member of Congress willing to put in bills certainly against Bush and Cheney and try to head this attack against Iran off, to do the best we can under the circumstances.