J's Cafe Nette

To Our House and Senate Leaders:

I hear you are planning ways to withdraw troops from Iraq by using amendments to funding bills later in the year.

Code Pink is forcing you to live up to your campaign promises, you see.

You think you can unring the bell of the war authorization. Sorry, but that train has left the station.

If what you want to do is what the majority of Americans want done, as you say, then do it the honorable way. Send up a bill that will stop all funding of the war and we will be forced to leave Iraq if there are no funds.

The American electorate will support you; or will they?

Quit playing around with amendments to spending bills setting a date certain for withdrawal. If you are so proud of what you want then show your pride and your support by putting forth a clean bill that shows it for what it is, instead of constantly going through the same gyrations we just went through in the past couple of months.

Does any politician think the voters have any sense at all, or do you all think we have the IQ of an amoeba?

What you are planning to do is the coward’s way out. You promised us transparency in our government. I’m ready for some transparency.

Pass a bill that calls for defunding the war and take any praise or scorn for that bill, but quit playing footsie and pretending it’s something else by trying to hide some strange-sounding amendment in an appropriations bill.

I, for one, will appreciate you more if you are honest with me and upfront instead of trying to slip something in on another bill.

Update: Take a look at what Captain Ed is writing. If what he reports is true, we won’t have to worry about Congress getting more involved in the war than they already are.

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