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Tell Congress: No More Money For Iraq
Target: U.S. House of RepresentativesSponsored by: Democrats.com
March 19 marked the 5th Anniversary of George Bush's disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq - yet there is no end in sight.
The costs so far are staggering: over 4,000 young Americans killed, tens of thousands maimed ... estimates of 1 million Iraqi civilians killed, millions more maimed or driven abroad ... $562 billion in tax dollars stolen from our children ... $3 trillion cost to our economy through veterans care, weapons replacement, higher oil prices, and the collapsing dollar.
All that in just 5 years!
We elected a Democratic Congress in 2006 to bring our troops home. They politely sent Bush one bill after another to "change the course," but he vetoed them all.
So Democrats have just one choice left: to Just Say No to any more funds for Iraq.
The Constitution gives Congress control of the Federal checkbook. George Bush cannot spend a penny unless Congress writes him a check.
Unfortunately, Congress has written one blank check after another, now totaling $562 billion. And now George Bush wants another blank check for $102 billion. Congress is set to vote on this next week.
Sign our petition to tell your Representative: no more money for Iraq, except to bring our troops safely home.
The costs so far are staggering: over 4,000 young Americans killed, tens of thousands maimed ... estimates of 1 million Iraqi civilians killed, millions more maimed or driven abroad ... $562 billion in tax dollars stolen from our children ... $3 trillion cost to our economy through veterans care, weapons replacement, higher oil prices, and the collapsing dollar.
All that in just 5 years!
We elected a Democratic Congress in 2006 to bring our troops home. They politely sent Bush one bill after another to "change the course," but he vetoed them all.
So Democrats have just one choice left: to Just Say No to any more funds for Iraq.
The Constitution gives Congress control of the Federal checkbook. George Bush cannot spend a penny unless Congress writes him a check.
Unfortunately, Congress has written one blank check after another, now totaling $562 billion. And now George Bush wants another blank check for $102 billion. Congress is set to vote on this next week.
Sign our petition to tell your Representative: no more money for Iraq, except to bring our troops safely home.
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Stop the fighting and start healing.
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Use money only for reconstruction for Iraq, to help with U.N. peacekeeping efforts if agreed upon, and to remove the coalition's occupational forces.
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Enough is enough!
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The only way to end this war is to stop the funding - now!
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Enough is enough already. We have pressing problems at home that have been ignored long enough.
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STOP THE WAR! Enough is Enough!
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Our economy cannot continue to pay for this war.
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There should not be any more American fund wasted in a country that is rich enough to take care of their own problems if they wanted to. We are in deep economic trouble here and American tax money should go to benefit Americans first.
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Pres. Bush, Enough is enough. Iraq is in a civil war that we have not been able to stop. We let the genie out of the bottle by our premptive invasion. A stupid plan with no thought of the consequences. The only money that should go to Iraq is to pull our troops out. We had our Civil War, let them finish theirs. Mike L
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It's time this war ended. Too many lives have been lost in this futile war.
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This war was illegal from the get-go. We were lied into it by an illegal-presidential administration who also happen to be traitors to the United States of America.
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No more money for the Iraq War. Refuse to fund the illegal occupation and bring the troops home.
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This destructive war must be stopped now. Too many lives have been destroyed and our country and it's infrastructure are in desperate need of repair, as is Iraq. Iraq's problems will not be solved militarily. Stop wasting tax payers' money and making contractors rich.
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Enough already, bring them home!
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Please please cut off funding for this misbegotten, endless war that we NEVER should have gotten into!
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I want my tax money to be spent on things that will benefit my country; NOT bombs and bullets to destroy someone else's country.
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The money for the war on Iraq has not gone to rebuilding schools, infrastructure, etc... as it should. It's a waste of my tax dollars and the situation is only deteriorating!
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