"ActForChange":Tell UN to Fix Iraq Resolution; Dump Limbaugh from AFR

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Tell the U.N. Security Council to Fix Flawed Iraq Resolution

It has become clear to all but a few that a military occupation of Iraq cannot be sustained, and the Bush administration is hard at work seeking to show progress before the November election. With very few exceptions, President Bush and his advisors have made all the wrong choices concerning Iraq, and there is little hope that this will change.

It is good news that a caretaker Iraqi government has been formed, but the terms under which it governs are critical. Both the U.S. and Great Britain desperately want a new U.N. mandate for transferring partial sovereignty while maintaining the military occupation after June 30th. This gives the U.N. Security Council enormous leverage in getting the next phase of our Iraqi misadventure on the right track.

The current version of the draft resolution on Iraq is deeply flawed and must be improved before passage. Already, under international pressure, the draft resolution has been changed to provide for Iraqi control of Iraqi military forces (but not foreign forces) and to set a date in early 2006 for withdrawal of foreign forces. This progress should be acknowledged, and pressure for further changes should be intensified.

Urge the U.N. Security Council to vote “no” on the current U.S./U.K. Iraq proposal unless crucial changes are made to the flawed proposal.


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Also, there's this ActForChange

Dump Rush Limbaugh from American Forces Radio

Nearly a million American soldiers and Department of Defense staff are able to hear Rush Limbaugh due to the generosity of the American taxpayer and partisan decision making by the Pentagon. Salon.com reports that Rush Limbaugh spews his blatantly partisan views (he has repeatedly equated Democrats with terrorists and has said that Democrats "hate this country," among other tidbits) daily on American Forces Radio (AFR). This airing of such extreme and hateful partisan content must stop immediately.