U.S. Labor Against The War: No Escalation - Bring Troops Home Now!

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http://www.laborradio.org/node/5026

U.S. Labor Against The War: No Escalation - Bring Troops Home Now!

By Doug Cunningham

Organized labor is with the vast majority of the American people against the Iraq war. U.S. Labor Against The War’s Michael Eisencher says the new Democratic Congress should not allow Bush to escalate the war.

: “The new Congress has an obligation to honor the mandate that they were given by the electorate to cut off the funds and force the president to bring our troops back. He has an urge to surge and we have an urge to purge."

On January 27th there will be a demonstration against the war in Washington, D.C. demanding that the troops be withdrawn immediately.
Eisencher says there’s no excuse now for Congress to go along with escalating the war. The debate, he says, must change from how best to manage the Iraq war to how to extricate the U.S. from the debacle.

: “The war was predicated on lies and misrepresentation. It was illegal. The president had no authority to do it. The Congress went along and now there is one solution and one solution only. And that is to get our troops out."