Iraq Reviews > MoveOn, Liberals, and Edwards Unite to End Iraq War
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[CNSNews.com Headlines] (CNSNews.com) - Liberal activist groups MoveOn.org, USAction, Americans United for Change, VoteVets, and the Service Employees International Union, along with former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife, joined forces Monday to announce a $20-million public awareness and lobbying campaign to promote a perceived link between the war in Iraq and a weakening U.S. economy.
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[Under the Dome blog] Edwards: Iraq, economy tied: Edwards praised Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for saying the war should be ended. His wife, Elizabeth, said voters who are concerned about the economy should be concerned about Iraq as well.
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[MyDD] John Edwards's Next Act: The multi-million-dollar Iraq/Recession Campaign, which launches Monday, seeks to remind voters, in the words of organizers, that, "As economic concerns weigh heavily on the minds of Americans, opposition to President Bush's reckless war in Iraq continues to grow. The massive cost of the war in Iraq - hurtling toward one trillion dollars - has increased demand for a strategy to bring U.S. troops home.
[The Swamp] John, Elizabeth Edwards: Blame Iraq for economy: Clinton and Barack Obama, John Edwards and these liberal fringe groups will continue to do and say anything to distract voters from their overall goals of retreating from the War on Terror and instituting devastating tax hikes on hard-working Americans."
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[The Talk Radio News Service] Progressive coalition announces new campaign to end Iraq war: John Edwards said that he witnessed a lot of “anger” and “angst” toward the state of the economy and the war in Iraq during his travels across the country while campaigning for president. He said that people dont understand why the government is spending $500 billion in Iraq when over 40 million Americans are living without health care and 37 million are in poverty.
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[Matthew Yglesias] Iraq/Recession: Alternatively, if we could take the vast sums we're currently spending in Iraq and somehow frictionlessly transmute that into some kind of better-designed domestic stimulus, that would help the economy over the short run. But in terms of actually available policy options (the time machine would be handy, though) bringing the war to an end, though strategically vital and good for America's long-term economic outlook, doesn't seem to me to be something likely to help the country with our short-term economic challenges.
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[Liberty Street] Edwards Redux: Edwards will appear on a Monday morning conference call with officials from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and MoveOn.org, which have both endorsed Obama. Edwards has yet to make an endorsement since he left the presidential race in January after placing third in several early primaries.
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[WSJ.com: Washington Wire - WSJ.com] Democratic Coalition to Target Republicans on War and Economy: MoveOn.org, Center for American Progress, USAction, Service Employees International Union, VoteVets.org, and Americans United for Change are fine examples of extreme left wing socialist organizations bent on re-distributing the wealth and income of the upper middle and upper classes to the Democratic constituency. Its money, pure and simple.
[Member Posts] "Iraq/Recession" Campaign Ramping Up!: Today, a coalition of progressive groups ” including MoveOn, the Center for American Progress Action Fund , US Action, SEIU, VoteVets, and Americans United for Change ” announced a new “Iraq/Recession” campaign, a $15 million nationwide .
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[Cliff Schecter] John Edwards joins anti-war Obama supporters: Edwards will appear on a Monday morning conference call with officials from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and MoveOn.org, which have both endorsed Obama. Edwards has yet to make an endorsement since he left the presidential race in January after placing third in several early primaries.
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[Maokimballkirstine's Weblog] bully boy wants to cut a deal: Anderson, who self-checked out after serving in Iraq and receiving the Purple Heart, returned from Canada last year to turn himself in and he discussed with Forrest how that went, “I went to turn myself in at Fort Knox and I found the Generals at Fort Knox, and they had the choice to either Court Marshall me or not, and I told them that they’re going to have to put my uniform on me and pin my medals to my chest, put me on Court Martial, and that my whole defense is going to be talking about all the war crimes we committed, all the friends I’ve seen beating prisoners to death, all the times we killed innocent civilians. They told me I was going to go to jail for one to five years, and when I got to the base they started to break, saying, ‘Come in quietly and we’ll let you go.’
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[Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog] In Brief - February 25th, 2008: to focus on Iraq war costs in their efforts to bring down John McCain's presidential campaign. The joint effort will highlight the connection between war spending and the troubled US economy and includes groups such as MoveOn.org., .
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[Brave New Films (all posts)] New VoteVets Anti-McCain Ad Hits The Air: Part of a new $20 million election-year campaign that calls for withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, the effort has the support of John and Elizabeth Edwards, MoveOn.org, the Service Employees International Union, VoteVets.org, and the Center for American Progress. Elizabeth Edwards said this,
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[Hywshannon's Weblog] 3/29: Last Man Standing?: Also focussing on Iraq, MyDD’s Chris Bowers links to reports “a viable GOP candidate could criticize the management of the war, but not the need for the war” and goes on to make a similar litmus test for the Dem nominee: “In order to win the 2008 election, every Democratic contender does not need to do much more than pledge to withdraw all troops–including “trainers”–from Iraq within six months of taking office.
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[Hjxaubreythurston's Weblog] 7/18: Obama vs. Dean: Blogging that “every additional day we stay-the-course in Iraq more American lives are lost, our standing in the world is further eroded, and our country becomes more vulnerable” Chris Dodd makes the case to Huffington Post readers for his own amendment to the DoD authorization bill that would end “the financing of combat operations, mandate a phased redeployment of combat forces from Iraq, and ensure that the administration actually carries out that redeployment.”
[BlogJunkies] Anti-War Coalition Launches ?Iraq/Recession? Campaign, Tying Cost ...: Today, a coalition of progressive groups ” including MoveOn, the Center for American Progress Action Fund , US Action, SEIU, VoteVets, and Americans United for Change ” announced a new “Iraq/Recession” campaign, a $15 million nationwide .
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