SEPARATING THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF-- WHO REALLY WANTS TO END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ?

With all the bullshit going on Inside the Beltway, how can you tell who really wants the war ended and who's just faking or playing to the voters (who do want it over)? Easy-- at least in the Senate-- where
Russ Feingold offered up a straight forward bill today that would have forced the Bush Regime to redeploy most troops out of Iraq by July 2008." It shouldn't surprise you that not a single Republican-- and that includes the fake moderates like Gordon Smith, Norm Coleman, Susan Collins, etc-- voted to end the war. Quite a few cowardly Democrats joined them. Of the two independents in the Senate, Sanders (VT) voted with the Democrats and, predictably, Lieberman was all about endless war and supporting the Bush Regime agenda of Middle East mayhem.

A slim majority of Democrats voted to end the war. The Democrats not this do not deserve your support. If you contribute to any of them-- or to the DSCC-- you are contributing to a policy of perpetual war. Try to remember. These guys you can support:

Future president Hillary Clinton (NY)
Schumer (NY)
Dodd (CT)
Obama (IL)
Durbin (IL)
Akaka (HI)
Inouye (HI)
Boxer (CA)
Feinstein (CA)
Wyden (OR)
Whitehouse (RI)
Kennedy (MA)
Kerry (MA)
Brown (OH)
Byrd (WV)
Rockefeller (WV)
Cardin (MD)
Klobuchar (MN)
Leahy (VT)
Stabenow (MI)
Reid (NV)
Menendez (NJ)
Lautenberg (NJ)
Murray (WA)
Kohl (WI)
Feingold (WI)
Harkin (IA)

This was Senator Feingold's statement after the bill was defeated:

“I am pleased that the Senate leadership cosponsored and strongly supported this amendment and that, once again, the majority of Democrats supported ending the President’s flawed Iraq policy. The time to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq is now, and I will not relent until it happens. A vote against Feingold-Reid was a vote to continue the President’s disastrous Iraq policy. Every day that the Congress fails to act, our brave troops remain in harm’s way, and our national security continues to be undermined.”

His statement before the vote was even more inspired. He eviscerates Bush's whole propaganda surge against the American people. (There's a video of it too-- back there at the link.)

The take away: more and better Democrats in '08. You want to keep the war going, donate to any Democratic senator not on this list, warmongers like Baucus (MT), Landrieu (LA), Pryor (AR), Johnson (SD) or Levin (MI). You want to end the war? Donate to anyone on the Blue America candidates list. If someone votes to prolong the war they're disqualified from being on our list.