THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17: CALL CONGRESS!

[hermetic]

Call the Capitol switchboard and ask to be connected with your Senators and Representatives, 202-224-3121 (9-5 EST). Flood congressional offices with calls from every district in the nation. See below for talking points.

TALKING POINTS
Tell your members of Congress that when they receive Bush’s $80 billion supplemental appropriation request they should:

1. Oppose new funds: Congress should halt new funds for U.S. military
operations in Iraq. Any new funds should be allocated solely for troop withdrawal and interim troop protection.

2. Support amendments to the appropriations bill that call for an end
to the occupation and support Iraqi sovereignty. We need to halt U.S.
military actions immediately, shift U.S. troops immediately to the
borders of Iraq, declare our intention to begin full withdrawal of troops, and leave no U.S. bases behind. We also need to give Iraqis full control over reconstruction funds, Iraqi ministries and government, and new police and security forces. The U.S. should terminate contracts with U.S. companies and turn projects over to Iraqis, and provide transparent accounting of all U.S. contracts.

3. Support the Woolsey (D-CA) resolution calling on the President to
begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

4. Stabilize Iraq: Commit to long-term U.S. financial support for
Iraqi-led reconstruction and allow the UN and other international agencies to support Iraq democracy free from U.S. intervention, and if the Iraqis want that assistance.

5. Provide real support for our troops: End the "stop-loss" policies
that keep troops on active duty far beyond their contracts, and
overextend the Reserves and National Guard. Provide thorough psychological counseling, health care, and benefits to returning Iraq war veterans and their families. Bring our troops home!

[hermetic]

1. That's today kids

pick up that phone now....

[EFerrari]

2. Will do. Have to say, I'm really demoralized

that Death Squads Negroponte is going to be in a position to do to US citizens what he did to my people in Central America.

My mom's whole generation must be thinking, wait, isn't this why we immigrated?

(there is no strong enough expletive to delete)