I don't know how many of you watched the Presidents speech last night but what I saw was the same old thing (stay the course- which is not working) and of course that he intends to put 20,000+ more in harms way soon.

What part of the majority votes in the last election didn't he understand?

This so reminds me of Paypals tactics.  Pretend to care and just keep on doing what they want to do anyway regardless of who it may hurt.

Anyway I ran across an editorial written yesterday by Senator Russ Feingold in a Milwaukee WI paper, and have decided to support him in anyway I can on this issue. 

Here is what I read and how anyone who agrees can support his resolution:

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Use the power of the purse

By RUSS FEINGOLD

Keeping our brave troops in Iraq indefinitely is having a
devastating impact on our national security and military
readiness.

That's why I have consistently advocated that we set a timetable
to redeploy our troops from Iraq. But the president refuses to
set a timetable, even though the American people soundly
rejected his Iraq policy in November. Instead, the president has
announced he wants to send approximately 20,000 more troops.

We should be redeploying our troops out of Iraq, not sending in
more.

Conditions in Iraq are deteriorating, the strain on our military
is increasing and the threats we face to our national security
elsewhere in the world continue to grow. We can't afford to wait
any longer. Congress must use its main power - the power of the
purse - to put an end to our involvement in the war in Iraq.

Over the next several weeks, I am going to take a hard look at
just how we should do that in my capacity as a member of the
Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees, both of which
will be holding hearings on Iraq.

As the president made clear Wednesday night, he has no intention
of redeploying our troops from Iraq. Congress cannot continue to
accept this. Congress can, by restricting funding for this
misguided war, do what the president refuses to do - redeploy
from Iraq to refocus on defeating global terrorist networks.

Some will claim that cutting off funding for the war would
endanger our brave troops on the ground. Not true. The safety of
our service men and women in Iraq is paramount, and we can and
should end funding for the war without putting our troops in
further danger.

Congress will continue to give our troops the resources and
support they need, but by, for example, specifying a time after
which funding for the war would end, it can give the president
the time needed to redeploy troops safely from Iraq.

Our troops in Iraq have done their job professionally and
heroically. But we cannot continue to send our nation's best
into a war that was started - and is still maintained - on false
pretenses. An indefinite presence of U.S. military personnel in
Iraq will not fix that country's political problems. And sending
more troops will not provide the stability that can only come
from a political agreement.

Our country needs a new national security strategy that starts
with a redeployment from Iraq so we can focus on the global
threats to our national security that have only grown while this
administration has been bogged down in that country.

We need to finish the job in Afghanistan and address threats to
our security in Somalia and other weak or failed states that we
have neglected for too long. We should scrap the failed
diplomacy the administration has used to offend, push away and
ultimately alienate so many of our friends and allies, while we
also repair and infuse new capabilities and strength into our
armed forces.

Keeping massive numbers of American troops in Iraq indefinitely
is not the way to defeat global terrorist networks. We will
continue to weaken, not strengthen, our national security by
continuing to pour a disproportionate level of our military and
intelligence and fiscal resources into Iraq.

In the November elections, the American people made it clear
that they want our troops out of Iraq, and it is up to Congress
to respond. Our top national security priority must be to defeat
the global terrorist networks operating in countries around the
world. With Wednesday's announcement that he seeks to escalate
the Iraq war, the president made it clear that he will continue
to shortchange that global fight and to ignore the will of the
American people.

From the beginning, this war has been a mistake, and the
policies that have carried it out have been a failure. Congress
must not allow the president to continue or escalate a war that
has already come at such a terrible cost.

It's time for Congress to use the power of the purse to end this
devastating war and finally bring American troops out of Iraq.

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