How can you possibly be against the war if you're still for funding it??

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what is the logic to this position, wasn't the Viet nam war stopped and the soldiers brought home because the funding was STOPPED!

[The Traveler]

1. And before that happened

non-binding resolutions were passed to express the People's displeasure.

OK ... we tagged first base. Now let's get ready to fund the re-deployment/withdrawl and cut off funding for all other military operations in Iraq. We made a mistake, and we cannot remedy it by doing more of the same.

[napi21]

2. I can tell you how I interpret that action.

I'm against the war too, and always have been, but the one thing I DON'T wantis to put our soldiers inMORE danger than they are in already! I've asked the question several times "can Congress STOP funding the was, but not risk our soldiers not havingenough amunition to protect themselves, or notgetting fuel for their vehicles, or no money for food?" So far, the only response I've received was "Probably not."

My son is now retired from the Navy, but I still care about the people in our military, and I recommend fuding just to protect them.

[Hippo_Tron]

3. Only if Bush is sadistic enough to keep them in there after they cut off the funding

I think the best solution is to make the funding conditional on re-deployment. If Bush refuses to sign the bill then he will be the one literally keeping them from putting the bullets into their guns.

[napi21]

6. Do you REALLY think that he's NOT?

I wouldn't trust him! He's so damn determined to have his own way, I think he'd keep them there anyway!

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Nope I don't, the party won't let him drag them that far itno the ditch

[G_j]

5. Kucinich said there was already enough $$ in the pipeline

to take care of those needs

[Jeanette in FL]

4. You can't be n/t

[Toucano]

7. I think a lot of people are concerned

because the people in charge sent men and women into battle without all the protection they could use.

I think some people who are opposed to the war are worried that if funding is cut off, Bush will keep men and women there without meeting their basic needs. He's so resolute in his stupid folly that he might make them stay so they can "win" and the troops will suffer.

I think that's something different than in Vietnam.

I can understand how some people would prefer that the withdrawal happen before the funding is cut in this case.

[Bjornsdotter]

Ding, ding, ding

....that is exactly how I feel.

Cheers

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8. Cutting Funding for the Vietnam War: a Precedent for Iraq?

Talk about Congress cutting funding for the Iraq war has been moving from a mumble to what I expect will be a roar before long. It brings me back to a moment in the spring of 1973 when the House voted to block military aid for South Vietnam, the first step in a series of funding cuts that brought that war to an end.
http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/blog/?p=63

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9. What happened when Democrats in Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War?

Charles Rangel, “You’ve got to be able to pay for the war, don’t you?” Fellow member of the Out of Iraq caucus, Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) has stated that “Personally I wouldn’t spend another dime on the war,” and notes that Congress helped force an end to the Vietnam War by refusing to pay for it.