FEINGOLD TO PUSH FOR REDEPLOYMENT FROM IRAQ AS PART
OF SPENDING BILL
Feingold, Senate Majority Leader Reid will Offer Amendment Requiring
Troops to Be Redeployed from Iraq within Nine Months of Passage
December 18, 2007
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will continue his
effort this week to require the President to end his disastrous Iraq
policy and bring our troops out of Iraq. Feingold will be joined by
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in offering an amendment to the omnibus
spending bill based on their legislation requiring the redeployment
of U.S. troops from Iraq, with a few narrow exceptions, after which
funding for military operations in Iraq would end. The legislation,
which has already received the support of most Senate Democrats, would
result in the safe redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq within nine
months. Feingold has vowed to seek votes on his legislation at every
opportunity.
“While the administration focuses on Iraq, al Qaeda continues
to rebuild and strengthen in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region
and its affiliates are at work around the globe,” Feingold said.
“Senators must decide if they want to support the president’s
disastrous Iraq policy, which has left almost 4,000 Americans dead and
almost 30,000 more wounded, and is costing $12 billion per month, or
whether they want to focus our attention on fighting al Qaeda around
the world.”
Feingold will oppose any legislation which provides funding with no
strings attached for the open-ended military mission in Iraq. Feingold
recently completed his fifteenth year of holding open, town hall-style
meetings in each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. For the third year
in a row, Wisconsinites attending the meetings were most concerned with
our country’s foreign policy and Iraq in particular.
“The issue I heard most about this year as I traveled around
the state was anger over the President’s war in Iraq and Congress’
inability to end it,” Feingold said. “If those of us in
Congress who want to end this war don't take every opportunity to push
back against this administration, we will be just as responsible for
keeping our troops in Iraq.”
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