Edwards: "Congress must tell the president something very simple: No timetable-No funding-No excuses

[kpete]

I was on a media Q&A call with John Edwards yesterday. He was rolling out a new initiative on Iraq, and he said something that hit me square in the gut:

EDWARDS:President Bush wants everyone to keep playing the Beltway game. But this isn’t a game - lives are at stake. Young men and women are dying almost every day and Iraq is descending further into civil war. It’s time to end the game - we can’t wait. Congress must tell the president something very simple: No timetable, no funding. No excuses.

Straightforward and so simple even a shrub can understand it (or a shrub-like reporter, for that matter). The Edwards campaign plans on taking ads out to that effect in Roll Call as a means to pressure Congress to adopt that tack as well. Edwards also said that without a political solution to the sectarian infighting in Iraq, there can be no serious progress. Good on him. We simply cannot afford to keep paying the heavy price for George Bush’s failures.

more at:
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/06/wake-up/

[rodeodance]

1. Thank you John

[rodeodance]

2. i am sending this to my congress critters ALL of them.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

3. President replies

to Edwards "No more co-sponsoring Iraq war bills John".

[Nite Owl]

4. And he'll be putting

out ads saying this too. This is great, this is the leadership we need.

[Zodiak]

5. Too late

A few Democrats have signalled to the leadershpip that they will not support a withdrawal date and so we are not going to get one. Not in the Spring, anyways.....this war will continue regardless of the desires of the American people or the bulk of the Democrtic party.

What I want to know is WHICH Democrats are forcing us to lose the debate before it even starts. My guess is that it is the usual suspects. If they are undermining our efforts, they deserve to be named specifically.

[jsamuel]

6. Thanks!