Call-In for Peace

The following announcement is copied from a Progressive Democrats of America action appeal.

Join with Progressive Democrats of America members/supporters this Tuesday, March 6 and call Congress: 1- 888-851-1879.

Join the national Call-In for Peace. PDA and its allies are coordinating a unified phone campaign to get Congress to reject additional Iraq war funding - the Bush supplemental appropriations request for $93 billion more.

With the Democratic leadership signaling weakness and half-hearted amendments aimed at undermining the surge but not the war, our coalition is phoning in a loud and clear message:
NO MORE FUNDING FOR WAR. VOTE NO ON THE SUPPLEMENTAL. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME. . .AND OUT OF IRAQ'S CIVIL WAR.

PDA's big day is Tuesday, March 6. Mobilize all PDA members and supporters to phone Congress on Tuesday. Our special number into Congress is 1-888-851-1879.

When you call your Senate and Congressional offices, politely tell them one or two of the following points:

* Most Iraqis - both Sunni and Shia -- want US troops out of their country and most believe attacks on our troops are justified.

* US military force is no solution in Iraq - especially given the tainted rationales for invading Iraq, cultural gaps, Abu Ghraib, etc. Diplomacy, not war, is the solution.

* The American people at the polls in November and in opinion polls have expressed their view that the US needs to get out. Four years is enough!

* With its Constitutionally-granted "power of the purse," Congress has the duty to end the war by cutting off war funding, except what's needed for the prompt, safe, orderly withdrawal of all our troops.