Bring ’em home: Veterans, lawmakers, unionists, women tell Bush to listen up

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/10446/1/356

Bring ’em home: Veterans, lawmakers, unionists, women tell Bush to listen up

WASHINGTON — Determined to stand with the American people, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) and leaders of the antiwar movement blasted President Bush for refusing in his State of the Union speech Jan. 23 to heed the people’s will and bring the troops home from Iraq.

Woolsey told a crowded National Press Club news conference that she and other lawmakers would join hundreds of thousands in the Jan. 27 march on Washington to demand that Congress act to end the war.

Bush “continues to ignore the voices of the American public who voted on Nov. 7 not just for a new majority party but for a change in our Iraq policy,” the congresswoman said.

Just one day after Bush’s speech to a joint session of the House and Senate, Congress was moving toward condemning his decision to deploy 21,500 more troops to Iraq, through a bipartisan nonbinding resolution. As many as eight Republicans are expected to support the resolution.

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