Unauthorizing the war

  Now , this is something that Mike was involved in.

Many references in books and the internet as to when

the U S Congress cut off military supplies

to Turkey.

However , there are no clear internet sources to that legislation.

Here are two references from Gerald Ford's papers:

 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4481

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=5438

Seems like the truth is being messed up on that history.

At least two laws seemed to have been in play:

The Continuing Appropriation Resolution for FY 75   Public Law  93-448

 ( looks like  Ford signed this after two vetoes , but tried to blame Congress for

passing it ! )

also  PL  94-104  and PL  95-384

and also  the Foreign Assistance Act of 74 ,  enacted  12-30-74.

 Anyway :  over the objections of the President of the United  States , the US got out of Turkey !

Maybe that procedure can be used now to get out of Iraq.

I thought it might be of interest because  Mike would have personal knowledge

of those proceedings.

ROW THE GRAVEL  !

 tannhauser PACOM  ,  tanaiste

Mike Gravel... Hello...

I have been alerting people on other blogs that you are about to publish draft legislation to "Fund the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq within sixty days of its passage, and to fund only that withdrawal", as you yourself proposed in an interview I read right here. Ending the war by de-funding it makes its (il)legality a moot point.

Clearly Hillary instinctively understands what a threat you pose to her war. She is even willing to make it illegal if that allows it to continue.

Edwards as well has embraced your tactic of persistence... wrapped his lips around around it that is. I've yet to see any bill repeatedly sent to the White House for non-signature.

No action yet... from any quarter including, unfortunately, your own.

The sooner you are able to put your proposed draft up on your website the sooner we can all cut and paste it into emails and snail mails and send it to "our" Senators and Representatives demanding that they pass it.

This is not just our one and only way of expressing our desires and demands to the War Criminals in Washington DC in a concerted fashion, but by virtue of your having drawn up the draft it makes you the defacto leader of the antiwar movement and thence of the Democratic Party, as the fight to pass the legislation is realized.

Hundreds of thousands of copies of your draft legislation (I don't need to tell you to keep it simple, I'm sure) arriving by email, by snail mail, read out in telephone calls, sung from telegrams by Western Union messengers, and posted on telephone polls and blank walls all over the country will focus Demoplican attention on a real, enactable way to end the war.

Your name at the top of the draft will solidify your position at the top of the movement against the war. You will become the defacto leader of the Democratic wing of the Demoplican Party as well.

And we will prevail. How can they withstand our persistence? Hundreds of thousands of copies will swell to millions as they dilly-dally trying to avoid the inevitable. How can they not pass a law presented on the initiative of the people and pursued persistently, doggedly, day-in and day-out? How can they take "no" for an answer when we keep saying in measured, deadly serious tones, as deadly serious as the very war itself, "yes, yes, yes! You will!"

We look forward to your victorius stride into the White House on 20 January, 2009, Mike Gravel. But we cannot wait until then to end the war. This war is an unholy holocaust that must end now.

Being the man who ended the war in Iraq is a very good argument for making you President of the United States.

I know that unlike the "top tier" Demoplicans you do not view a continuing war in Iraq as a political "asset" and a Republicrat liability.

If Gravel's words can shift the attitudes of those in power, it makes him just as powerful as if he were the President himself... gives me hope how a voice can change the world.

Of course this is nothing new, Hillary is no fool, she saw the reaction and noticed that if she doesn't get tougher, Gravel might take her down. I still won't vote for her, and neither will people when they realize who came up with the idea first... noone likes a thief.

The powers at be have woken up, the ends justify the means. I see this as a thing to celebrate cause now when he has that press conference... look out Hillary, you will become the follower.

Gravel you sly old dog...

Even if we should fail, let the ideals live on.

guess this goes to show just how much some in the mainstream media cares about being fair and balanced.

 time to write again...

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