The Troops Out Now Coalition's Response To Bush's "Surge" Speech

[pberq]

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THE TROOPS OUT NOW COALITION'S RESPONSE TO BUSH'S "SURGE" SPEECH

The War Will Go On Forever Unless We Rise Up and Stop It

* Force Congress to Cut Off ALL War Funding
* We can do it if we move from symbolic protest to mass resistance
* Be prepared to stay in D.C. this spring


An Appeal for Unity in the Antiwar Movement:
Let's work together for the January 27 and March 17 antiwar marches

The point of President Bush’s “surge” speech this evening is not in the details of his proposals; rather, it’s the message. The details of Bush’s proposal amount to nothing more than a desperate effort to bolster a criminal colonial occupation by ordering more killing and destruction. Bush’s message is more important. He’s
telling us once again that he doesn’t care that the majority of us want the war and occupation to end immediately; he’s going to continue the war until the people literally rise up in mass rebellion in the streets to end it.

Indeed, Bush is not only determined to continue the war and occupation in Iraq; he's opened a new front for his global war of colonial conquest in Africa. At this very moment, U.S. AC-130 gun ships are attacking the people of Somalia, as an armada of Pentagon war ships with thousands of troops and bombs waits off the Indian Ocean coast of that country for orders to attack. At the same time, the Pentagon is strengthening it’s land and sea forces around Iran in preparation for a military attack on that country.

The time has come for the antiwar movement to move from symbolic protest to mass resistance.

Congress must be put on notice; it is not enough to merely oppose Bush’s proposal for a “surge” in troops to Iraq. It’s not enough for Congress to hold more hearings to criticize the war--talk is cheap and people are tired of it. It’s not enough for Congress to vote on resolutions calling for phased withdrawals and timetables, or any other partial measures. It’s not enough for Congress to threaten to oppose funding for new troops.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. The Speech, if ya could call it that, was loaded with EMPTY LANGUAGE

the level where BS exists and thrives....

[pberq]

2. cut off all war funding

http://toncnews.blogspot.com/

. . . When Congress gets President Bush’s request for $100 billion more to fund the war, it must say "no" to the entire amount. To ensure that Congress does not approve another dollar for the war, on March 17, (the fourth anniversary of the war) when we march on Washington against the war, instead of getting back on our buses and heading home, we must be prepared to stay in Washington to make sure that Congress votes "no."

Forcing Congress to cut off all war funding is the defining struggle for the antiwar movement this spring, and we can do it if we think and act big. The people are on our side, the momentum is on our side; the whole world is on our side. The only question is whether we have the conviction and the courage to take our struggle against the war from the level of symbolic protest to real mass resistance.