source: After Downing Street
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Please phone your Representative at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to commit to voting No on war funding, and post below what they tell you.
Find out who to call in Congress.
The argument for voting No is laid out here.
President Obama wants yet another $33 billion for wars, specifically to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Congress is expected to vote in April or May, 2010. And here's the lipstick excuse (Haiti aid which can be passed separately, and everyone knows it.)
Congress members can vote No on this one without voting to end a war, only to refrain from escalating it. And as of last winter a lot of them, including Pelosi, Obey, etc., said they opposed the escalation. They said last December that the money they were then voting for would not cover the escalation, so the fact that the escalation has begun without funding does not make it a legitimate fait accompli, but an unconstitutional abuse that can be halted and reversed.
Talk of "abandoning troops" makes even less sense than usual, given that a No vote is a vote not to send them (or to bring back those just sent).
But the House can halt a war as well as an escalation if it refuses to pass future war funding. If the U.S. House of Representatives votes No on war funding, war ends. Wars have been ended this way before.
In the coming weeks, Congress will vote on spending $33 billion of your money to send another 30,000 troops, plus many more contractors, to Afghanistan.
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Tell congress members we need them to publicly commit to voting No, and to urge their colleagues to do the same. Call your Representative at (202) 224-3121.
Here's a whip list tracking who has already committed to voting No and to publicly lobbying their colleagues to join them:
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Congressman Bill Delahunt is holding a public forum on the question of war funding this Sunday in Falmouth, Mass. The public is encouraged to attend.
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David Swanson's prepared remarks for the forum offer a detailed argument for voting No on the $33 billion.
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On tax day, let people know where their tax dollars will be going. Here are some resources:
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And plan ahead for Brown Bag Vigils all over the country on April 21st!
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