Feingold on using the Power of the Purse on Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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Feingold was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Thursday, the day after Bush's speech about sending more troops to Iraq. Feingold discusses the need to redeploy our troops and possibly using the power of the purse to do so. From the transcript of the interview...

The president has been wrong on every aspect of this war. He was wrong about the premise that we went into the war on, he was wrong about the idea that there wasn‘t a civil war, he was wrong about the idea that this didn‘t help rather than hurt al Qaeda.

So I don‘t see it as my responsibility to make up for the fact that he took us into this war under false pretenses, and is keeping us there under false pretenses. The fact is, the situation now is completely unacceptable. It‘s devastating to our American national security and our military.

The burden is on them to justify continuing this awful mistake. The burden is not on us, who never thought we should go there in the first place.

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1. That's my Senator!

B-):thumbsup:

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