Sen. Clinton should co-sponsor KERRY-FEINGOLD

[ProSense]

Sen. Clinton should co-sponsor KERRY-FEINGOLD:

Congress Approves Kerry Legislation Urging Summit of Iraq and Its Neighbors to End Civil War and Build Political Solution

We began an important fight because together we know the time has come for a Congress that shares responsibility for getting us into Iraq to take responsibility for helping to get us out. We know it is not enough to argue with details or logistics, with the manner of the conflict’s execution or the failures of competence, as great as they are. It is essential to fight to set a date to withdraw American forces.

That’s why this June with Russ Feingold, we fought for an up or down vote on the Kerry-Feingold amendment to withdraw US combat forces from Iraq by July 1, 2007. We made it clear that our soldiers have done their job. It is time for Iraqis to do their job – it’s time for Iraqis to stand up for Iraq. It’s time for Iraqis to want democracy for themselves as much as we want it for them. Click here to read our plan.

Hundreds of thousands of you in the johnkerry.com community have shown your support for our plan for Iraq. You signed our petition and urged your Senators to stand with us. With your help, we stood up to the Bush Administration’s aimless and failed course in Iraq.

On June 22, 2006 the Senate voted on the Kerry-Feingold amendment. Thirteen courageous Senators stood with us, and we want to thank them for their leadership:

Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), co-sponsor
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT)
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), co-sponsor
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

The fight is not over until we have changed course in Iraq. November 7th will be a day of reckoning for the administration’s broken course in Iraq.

British Army Commander Defends Call for Iraq Withdrawal

James Baker to release a plan after November 7.

[davidwparker]

1. She should. And, for 2008 she should sponsor Gore-Clark ;-))

[Deep13]

2. If it says "Feingold", it has to be good.

:)

[blm]

4. Depends - to get Feingold to sign with him, Kerry had to push back

withdrawal date by 6 months to July 2007, when he had originally drafted the withdrawal plan to Dec 2006. Kerry caught alot of crap for pushing his date back, but I understand why he did it - he needed more senators to push for withdrawal at the time.

Now that BushInc has STILL not moved, July 2007 seems like the most optimistic timeframe we could hope for at this point.

[ProSense]

3. Clinton urges change in Bush's Iraq policy

SYRACUSE

Clinton urges change in Bush's Iraq policy

10/13/2006

SYRACUSE (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on Thursday ratcheted up her calls for the Bush administration to change course in Iraq, saying something must be done "before it's too late."
"I'd like to see them start listening to different voices who might have a couple of good ideas about what should be done over there," Clinton said during a campaign stop at a community center.

Clinton said the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld might solve a lot of problems.

"I'm not going to be an armchair general here," she said. "(But) I believe that if the president were to replace Secretary Rumsfeld, the whole world would breathe a sigh of relief and maybe would start helping us more than they're going to help us if he's the messenger."

Clinton has come under attack from some in her party for voting for the war in 2002 and her opposition to a deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal.