If Hillary did it, there is no doubt, it would erase much of the enmity many of the antiwar activists now hold towards her. If Obama does it, it will help him to stand out as a strong leader with the courage to take a stand.
John Murtha could do it, as a military veteran. My congressman, for my district in PA, Patrick Murphy, the only Iraq veteran in congress, is in a great position to do it. They're good men. I hope they make the couragous choice, that they consider how many American lives will be wasted... WASTED by delaying the end of the war because they are afraid some incompetent failure Republicans will call them and their party names. I know they have guts. The question is can the rise to be leaders who help give the rest of the Democrats the guts.
Unfortunately, the Fall 2008 deadline the congressional Dems have just proposed is weak, certainly not enough, and most important, has no chance of passing the senate or the sure veto Bush will give it.
Blocking further funding of the war only takes 41 senators and a majority in the house. It's not legislation, it's blockage of legislation. Bush can't veto it. Republicans in the senate can't filibuster it. It is the way of power that the Democrats already have right now.
It is time for them to embrace it.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)