DNC Says Debate

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from the DNC: http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/02/debate.php

Debate

February 9, 2007 at 11:21 AM

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Next week the House of Representatives will commence a three-day debate on the Iraq war and consider a resolution that makes clear their intention to see a new direction for Iraq. The resolution will specifically reject the President's proposal to further escalate the war by sending an additional 21,500 troops into battle.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/washington/09cong.html)

The resolution is being described as a "first-step" towards ending the conflict in Iraq and bringing our troops home. Speaker Pelosi notes in today's New York Times that November's election demonstrated loudly and clearly that the American people want a new direction, “and no place do they want that direction to be more clear than in the war in Iraq.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/washington/09cong.html)

Plus there is the developing news coming out of the Senate. When Members of Congress go to vote next week they'll have new information to consider. The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to release a report from the Inspector General that explores the evidence that the Bush Administration used as their basis to go to war with Iraq, and the news is not good.

The report confirms what many have always believed - that the Bush Administration cherry-picked the facts they needed to be true in order to convince others of the necessity of war.

Via WaPo: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802387_pf.html)

Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, according to a report by the Pentagon's inspector general.

Feith's office "was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," according to portions of the report...

Next week's debate is a long time coming. But you don't have to wait until then. You can speak out now. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper, blog about it, tell your friends and your family - make it known that you support the Democratic Congress' efforts to prevent the President from sending more troops to Iraq, and to bring the troops that are there out of the civil war they are stuck in.

For more information, check out the Iraq Resource Center. (http://www.democrats.org/a/iraq/)

http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/02/debate.php

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1. THREE DAYS OF DEBATE ON IRAQ IN THE HOUSE!!!

BEGINNING TUESDAY!!!