John Edwards take!

[boston bean]

Tonight, President Bush is expected to adopt the McCain Doctrine and announce his plan to send up to 20,000 more troops to Iraq. That is a grave mistake.

The president's decision is wrong for Iraq and wrong for America -- and it's time for the new Congress to stop Bush from stubbornly pursuing his failed strategy in Iraq.

Congress should make it clear to the president that he will not get any money to put more of our troops in harm's way until he provides a plan to turn responsibility of Iraq over to the Iraqi people and to ultimately leave Iraq.

Click here to sign a petition calling on Congress to block funding for Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq.

The situation in Iraq demands a political solution -- not an escalation of the war that our generals agree won't help.

Escalating the war in Iraq sends the wrong message to the Iraqi people, to the region, and the world.

To get the Iraqis to begin to take responsibility for their country, we must show them that we are serious about leaving. And the best way to do that is by actually starting to leave -- beginning by immediately withdrawing 40,000-50,000 of our troops, not escalating the war.

George Bush wants to dig a deeper hole, but we need to climb out:

Join me in calling on Congress to block funding for Bush's escalation in Iraq.

Only when the U.S. starts leaving will the Iraqi people and other regional powers be forced to step up and engage in the search for a political solution -- and bring an end to the sectarian violence.

This president has had nearly four years to get Iraq right -- and at every step, he's gotten it wrong. Tonight, he's more wrong than ever about what America needs to do. It's time for Congress to act. And it's time for America to begin leaving Iraq.

Tell Congress to stop Bush's escalation of the war.

Thank you for taking action,

John Edwards

P.S. Please forward this email on to everyone you know -- Congress needs to hear from all of us that the American people are opposed to escalating the war in Iraq.

(I got this in an email)

[BlueManDude]

1. I like what I'm hearing from Edwards. The McCain Doctrine stuff

is smart.

[patrice]

2. ?

What IS the McCain doctrine then? I thought it was to Surge.

[mmonk]

4. Troop increases.

Tie this garbage to McCain and he fails to become a viable candidate in 08.

[BlueManDude]

6. What I'm saying is that he's pinning this losing strategy to McCain

who would be his likely general election opponent. Funny, none of the GOPers have the balls to pin this troup buildup on McCain because they all agree with it.

[bryant69]

3. It is smart. They are going to portray McCain as a return to sanity

for the party - the truth is, on all of the war stuff, McCain is exactly the same as Bush.

Bryant
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[Roxy66]

5. McCain = sanity? My head is spinning.....