Iraq Enablers In The Crosshairs

[babylonsister]

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/03/iraq_enablers_in_the_crosshairs.php

Iraq Enablers In The Crosshairs


A coalition of activists leading the opposition to the war in Iraq is refusing to give an inch to President Bush, who today unleashed more venom at Democrats for doing what a majority of voters want: a responsible withdrawal from Iraq.

One member of that coalition, Americans United for Change, announced a campaign targeting two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and John Sununu of New Hampshire. Both voted against a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq last week even though they have made statements critical of the administration’s war policy. Both are up for re-election in 2008.

Brad Woodhouse, president of Americans United for Change, said that it is time that “the people who enabled the president” to continue the Iraq war “to be held accountable.”

The group already has spent $200,000 on ads criticizing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for leading the opposition to the antiwar effort.

That initiative is being complemented by activities by MoveOn.org, the Service Employees International Union, USA Action, VoteVets.org and Win Without War. Their goal, while Congress is in Easter recess, is to keep the pressure on President Bush to sign, rather than veto, the funding bill that both houses of Congress approved that mandates a scheduled troop withdrawal.

Woodhouse said that while President Bush has a core of Republican supporters, “we know that support is hanging by a thread, and our objective is to cut that thread.”

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[salin]

1. k&r

[liberal N proud]

2. You have to ask, What are these groups gaining by this?

There is some huge profits they are protecting somewhere. Spending that kind of money means the stakes are even higher for those spending the cash.

[babylonsister]

3. What are they gaining by this? They're using their voices and their

money to try to end this illegal occupation; that's good enough for me.

[liberal N proud]

4. My brain was out to lunch this morning - I read the first line of the article incorrectly

I need more caffeine this AM

Some how I mistook this article as the ones spending the money were opposing those who were opposing. You don't want to be in my mind right now DUH!