Military Families Say: De-fund the War but Fund the Troops

Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson, DissidentVoice

Both the House and the Senate have passed Supplemental Funding bills. The House version has a "deadline" of August 31, 2008 for withdrawing US troops from Iraq. This is completely unacceptable and would mean the deaths of over 1,000 more US troops and tens of thousands of Iraqi children, women and men. To make matters worse, the bill has a provision that would allow the President to keep tens of thousands of troops in Iraq even beyond that unacceptable deadline. The Senate version has a suggested withdrawal date of March 2008. Both versions provide President Bush with the funding he has asked for to continue the war...

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