Pelosi: Bringing Our Troops Home - Not a Republican Priority

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Bringing Our Troops Home - Not a Republican Priority



On Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the $409 billion Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, which included $45 billion in funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Disagreement with the policies that sent our troops to Iraq, and which keeps them in danger today, in no way diminishes the respect and admiration which we have for our troops. Sadly, the level of their sacrifice has never been matched by the level of the Administration’s planning, and now the American people agree this war is not making America safer. Leader Nancy Pelosi offered an amendment that would have required the President to submit a report to Congress containing a "strategy for success" in Iraq and identifying the criteria to determine when it is appropriate to begin bringing U.S. troops home. On a nearly party line vote, Republicans refused to let the amendment even be considered. When will Republicans in Congress stop protecting the President's failed policies and start protecting American troops?

Add your voice to more than 10,000 people who have become Citizen Co-Sponsors of the Pelosi Amendment - http://www.democraticleader.house.gov/bringourtroopshome.cfm

Democrats support and stand behind our men and women in uniform - http://housedemocrats.gov/bigpicture/security/issue.cfm?level2id=50

[paineinthearse]

1. Pelosi shows some leadership and offers a way to show support

and the post gets only ONE reply in 11.5 hours!

Prove me wrong, that DU'ers prefer to whine and bitch rather than to support good news and action.

(ducking now)