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Tom Vilsack on War & Peace Democratic IA Governor

National Guard too busy in Iraq handle natural disasters

The war needs to be ended now, not in 6 months or 6 years

I’m here today because that’s not my America and it’s not your America. Five-year-olders should not be frightened in this country. And so I want to challenge every single one of you and ask the simple question: What have you done today to end this war in Iraq? It needs to be ended now, not six days from now, not six months from now, not six years from now, it needs to be ended now! And it’s up to you.

Congress should remove funding for the war

A: Congress takes the authority they have under the Constitution, and the moral authority that we expect them to show, and we say to the president, “Mr. President, we’re no longer going to fund this war.”

We’re in the middle of a civil war inside a civil war. It is not going to be responded to and answered militarily. It’s a political solution that is required, and only the Iraqis themselves have the power and the capacity to do it. As long as we are in the middle of this, that political resolution is actually being sidestepped; it is being delayed; it is not being enhanced by our presence there.

If we have troops to take anyplace or put anyplace in the world, let’s put them back in Afghanistan and let’s get the job done that we were supposed to do a number of years ago. Let’s find bin Laden. Let’s hold those folks who hurt us responsible.

Get troops out of harm’s way in Iraq