''Tell Congress we need an exit plan from Iraq''

"Cindy Sheehan's vigil in Texas has put the problems of the Iraq war on TV and in the newspapers—forcing President Bush and congressional leaders to deal with them. Now, the Bush administration has launched a public relations tour of the country to convince the public that things aren't going so badly in Iraq. As part of that tour, President Bush implied yesterday that Iraq attacked us on September 11—a deception meant to justify his failures in Iraq.1

We need leaders who will step up and say, "enough is enough."

Now, we might have the beginnings of a sea change in Congress. Republican Congressman Walter Jones, the formerly pro-war Republican representative who coined the term "Freedom Fries," joined a bi-partisan group of legislators this summer to call for a concrete plan to bring our troops home from Iraq.2 Will you call your representative and urge them to sign on as a co-sponsor?

Call: Congressman Jim McDermott,
Phone: 202-225-3106.
Tell the staffer who answers something like the following,

"My name is _________ and I am a constituent of Rep. McDermott. I am calling to ask him to sign on as co-sponsor of the Homeward Bound Act—House Joint Resolution 55—to insist that we have a real plan to bring our troops home from Iraq. It is bipartisan and an important step in the right direction."

After you make a call, please report your call by clicking here.
The resolution, known as the Homeward Bound Act (House Joint Resolution 55), was introduced by Jones, fellow Republican Rep. Ron Paul and Democratic Congressmen Neil Abercrombie and Dennis Kucinich. It would require the president to put together a plan by the end of the year for bringing home all U.S. forces from Iraq—with troop withdrawal beginning no later than October 1, 2006. It is an important step in the right direction, and with Republican co-sponsors it creates real pressure to change course.

There are 50 members of Congress who have signed up as co-sponsors of the Homeward Bound Act. That's a good start but we need more—our goal is to have more than 100 co-sponsors by the time Congress returns September 6. If we can do that it will show that Cindy Sheehan's vigil has added to the pressure on our leaders to come up with a real plan for Iraq."-from MoveOn.org. Jeez, aren't you as surprised as me that Jim hasn't already put his pen to paper on this?