Green Party: MoveOn.org Should Listen to Their Members and Oppose the War.

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http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_08_23.shtml

MoveOn.org Should Listen to Their Members and Oppose the War.

While its members protest the Iraq occupation along with Cindy Sheehan, MoveOn.org itself favors continued occupation, say Greens.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders are challenging MoveOn.org to support an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq.

"MoveOn has done an admirable job of rallying people nationwide behind Cindy Sheehan's protest vigil in Crawford, Texas," said Rebecca Rotzler, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and Deputy Mayor of New Paltz, New York. "But MoveOn itself has undermined such efforts by refusing to endorse an immediate end to the occupation of Iraq."

Journalist Norman Solomon has noted that MoveOn declined to support a resolution from Rep. Lynn Woolsey stating that "the president should develop and implement a plan to begin the immediate withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Iraq" and Rep. Barbara Lee's (D-Calif.) bill to block the establishment of permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq ("The Iraq Warand MoveOn", Common Dreams, August 18, <http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0818-33.htm>).

Several Green Party members, including Ms. Rotzler (who also serves as co-chair of the Green Party's Peace Action Committee), Andrea Garland of New Orleans, and Mato Ska of Phoenix have traveled to Crawford to join Cindy Sheehan's vigil at 'Camp Casey' near Mr. Bush's ranch, while thousands of other Greens participated in support vigils across the U.S. on August 17.

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1. LOL

But if they did that it would make MoveOn a 'far-left' anti-war 'extremist group'

Oh wait....the RW MSM says they are allready.

The Democratic party needs to show some true anti-war leadership Now. Support for the war is down to 30% and all the reasons for the war have been exposed as lies.

The American people want the Democratic party to stand up for Peace, truth, and Sanity.