[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: (MoveOn says) Rep. Honda gets it right on Iraq

Thu Mar 15 22:12:10 PDT 2007

Drew, As far as I'm concerned Mike Honda is not to be trusted.  MoveOn has 
got it all wrong !  Honda gets it wrong on Iraq, not right on Iraq!  Doug 
Mackenzie sent the following to our South Bay Occupation Project members regarding 
Honda. Also we can't trust what MoveOn says either.

Drew, you are right, Honda is still chopped liver in my book also.

Merriam

On March 15 (Doug MacKenzie) ddmackenzie at gmail.com wrote:

today, Mike Honda (CA-15) voted in favor of referring the Supplemental 
Appropriations bill funding the wars of aggression and occupation of Iraq and 
Afghanistan and the so-called Global War on Terror out of the Appropriations 
Committee - Honda was recently appointed to the Appropriations Committee by his 
handler, Nancy Pelosi 

the details of the Appropriations Committee meeting are sketchy (as is the 
USA government in general) but we found the following in an article in the times

"In the House, the Appropriations Committee advanced the $124 billion Iraq 
spending legislation, with Representative Barbara Lee of California being the 
lone Democratic vote against it. She argued it did not go far enough to end the 
war and remove troops from Iraq. Democrats sought to fight back charges that 
the legislation was meddling in the management of the war." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/washington/15cnd-cong.html?hp

we stopped by Honda's Campbell office and asked Meri Maben (Honda's district 
chief of staff) about why the restriction on attaching Iran was taken out of 
the bill - she told us that the Israeli lobby is very strong (no shit!) and the 
democrats had to do it to keep the party together 

so much for Mike "I'm against the Iraq war" Honda and his empty 
pronouncements

in solidarity,
doug
for the sbop

jamboi at yahoo.com wrote:

 Hmm... Merriam what do you think about this??? As far I'm concerned he
hasn't started the impeachment hearings OR AS FAR AS I KNOW EVEN
REPLIED TO OUR VALENTINES IMPEACH FOR THE LOVE OF AMERICA INVITE!!!  So
he's still chopped liver in my book.

Impeach for Peace!

Drew

--- "Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action"
<moveon-help at list.moveon.org> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:01:07 -0700
> From: "Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action"
> <moveon-help at list.moveon.org>
> To: "Drew Johnson" <jamboi at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Rep. Honda gets it right on Iraq
> 
> Dear MoveOn member,
> 
> The Democratic leadership has announced its plan for getting out of
> Iraq,
> and according to early news reports it may not go far enough on a
> couple
> of key provisions.
> 
> Progressives in Congress are standing strong--pushing for a swift,
> responsible exit that brings the troops home by the end of 2007. But
> Dick
> Cheney and the Republicans are on an all-out assault--saying that
> Democrats are "undermining the troops" by trying to end the war.1 And
> some Democrats in the middle are wavering.
> 
> Your representative, Rep. Honda has been leading the way to get us
> out of Iraq
> quickly and safely and he could really use your support right now.
> Can
> you click below to thank Rep. Honda and tell him to continue to push
> the
> leadership to bring our troops home by the end of this year?
> 
> http://pol.moveon.org/progressivehouse/?id=10008-1545797-e7PJLh&t=2
> 
> Voters elected Democrats in November to end the war. And new polling
> shows
> that 58% of Americans want us out of Iraq by 2008 or sooner.2
> Congress
> can make that happen, and your representative is on the hunt, but
> some
> representatives are afraid.
> 
> They're nervous about taking any measures to end the war. It's a
> political
> calculation--they don't want to "own" the war, they want it to be
> Bush's
> problem. That's a failure of leadership: How do you tell our troops
> that
> they're being asked to fight and die because Democrats don't want to
> "own"
> the war?
> 
> The truth is Congress will be responsible for the war only if they do
> nothing to stop it.
> 
> The details of the plan are being hammered out in the next few days,
> so
> your note today could matter a lot. It just takes a few minutes, but
> if we
> all push together, we can take a big step toward ending the war.
> 
> Thanks for all you do,
> 
> --Nita, Eli, Karin, Joan and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
>   Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
> 
> Sources:
> 
> 1. "Opposition Undercuts Troops, Cheney Says of Spending Bill," New
> York
> Times, March 13, 2007
> http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2419&id=10008-1545797-e7PJLh&t=3
> 
> 2. "Poll: 58 percent want Iraq withdrawal by 2008 or sooner,"
> CNN.com,
> March 13, 2007
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/13/iraq.poll/
> 
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