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Only One Congress Member Gets It
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Lee seemed to understand more quickly what I was saying, but also to lack any confidence that a real attempt to end the occupation this year could get off the ground. I asked her what would happen if her proposal for funding "redeployment" died in the Senate or on the president's desk. Would people understand that it was time to pass no legislation, or would they insist on passing some bill, any bill? The latter, she said. But she expressed a willingness to start trying to talk in terms of blocking any bills to fund the occupation. Sadly, the list we need to be watching even more than the list of signers of the Peace Pledge letter, is the list of congress members who want to end the occupation, not by passing a bill, but by blocking one. This list currently has only one person's name on it. If it doesn't grow quickly, and if the presidential election doesn't change drastically, we will be facing at least five more years of occupying Iraq.
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