Demand an Exit Plan from Afghanistan
National Call-In Day Today! Demand an Exit Plan from Afghanistan!
This week, the House passed the war-funding Supplemental bill, providing $79.9 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With this vote, the House has effectively ratified the escalation of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. It has done this — without any indication of an ‘exit plan’ from the Obama administration.
Tackling this problem is Congressman Jim McGovern’s bill HR 2404, which would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress outlining an ‘exit plan’ for U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan no later than December 31, 2009. Congressman McGovern’s bill is gaining support and now has 87 co-sponsors. And we’re urging your support now, too.
Today is National Call-In Day to Congress on the McGovern bill – and UFPJ urges you to contact your members of Congress to sign-on as a co-sponsor, if they have not already done so.
The Congressional Switchboard number is 202-224-3121. Be sure to pass this Action Alert on to others in your group, your friends, and your family. (And if you make your calls, please click on the UFPJ logo in this email.)
Click here for the text of the McGovern bill and a list of co-sponsors.
Building support for an ‘exit strategy’ is a first step for us in mounting an even stronger opposition to the Obama administration’s next war-funding request — $130 billion for the wars in FY2010. We are disappointed that Congress has once again rubber-stamped a president’s request to fund the wars. But we – thousands of peace activists across the country – made it extremely difficult for them to do so. The White House expected a slam dunk on the Supplemental bill, but was forced to resort to threats to pass it. And still we were able to maintain 32 antiwar Congressional representatives on our side.
Click here for Roll-Call on the Supplemental vote.
Will you call your Members of Congress and tell them to support HR 2404? Demanding an ‘exit strategy’ of the Obama administration is the responsible thing for every Representative to do!