Cong. Lujan Joins Call To Exit Iraq

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Lee-Jones Letter to President Obama calling for complete withdrawal
from Iraq by previously agreed upon deadline
SUBMITTED BY MEGAN IORIO ON 26 JULY 2011 - 12:32PM
Thanks to everyone who took action to ask their member of Congress to
support the Lee-Jones letter on Iraq! With your help, 93 Members of
Congress signed the letter, calling on the President to keep the
previously agreed upon deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq,
not to extend it or to leave troops in the country indefinitely. The
final version of the letter was sent to President Obama on July 27.
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KEEP TO THE CURRENT DEADLINE
Bring all U.S. Troops and Military Contractors in Iraq Home by Dec.
31, 2011!
The following 93 members of Congress signed the Lee-Jones letter on
Iraq: Baldwin, Bass (CA-33), Boswell, Braley, Capps, Capuano, Chu,
Cicilline, Clark (MI-13), Clarke (NY-11), Clay, Cleaver, Clyburn,
Cohen, Conyers, Costello, Davis (IL-7), DeFazio, DeLauro, Deutch,
Doggett, Doyle, Duncan (TN-2), Edwards, Ellison, Farr, Filner, Frank,
Fudge, Garamendi, Grijalva, Gutierrez, Hahn, Hanabusa, Hastings
(FL-23), Heinrich, Hirono, Holt, Honda, Jackson Jr. (IL-2), Jackson-
Lee, Johnson (IL-15), Johnson (TX-30), Jones, Kaptur, Kucinich,
Larson, Lee, Lewis (GA-5), Loebsack, Lofgren, Lujan, Maloney, Matsui,
McCollum, McDermott, McGovern, Michaud, Miller (CA-7), Moore, Nadler,
Napolitano, Norton, Olver, Paul, Payne, Pingree, Polis, Rangel,
Richardson, Rush, Sanchez (CA-39), Sanchez (CA-47), Schakowsky,
Schrader, Scott (VA-3), Serrano, Sewell, Slaughter, Speier, Stark,
Thompson (CA-1), Thompson (MS-2), Tonko, Towns, Tsongas, Velazquez,
Waters, Watt, Welch, Wilson (FL-17), Woolsey, Yarmuth
Dear Colleagues:
The war in Iraq will not be over until we have removed all our troops
and military contractors out of Iraq. However, the Administration is
considering leaving thousands of U.S. troops beyond the December 31,
2011 deadline.
We ask that you join us in signing a letter (text below) to President
Obama urging him to hold to our Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq
that committed our nation to removing all our forces and military
contractors from Iraq by the end of this year.
Leaving troops and military contractors in Iraq beyond the end of the
year deadline is not in our nation’s security interests, it is not in
our nation’s strategic interests, and it is not in our nation’s
economic interests.
To sign onto this bipartisan letter or for more information, please
contact Teddy Miller in Rep. Lee’s office (teddy.miller [at]
mail.house.gov or 5.2661) or Ray Celeste in Rep. Jones’ office
(raymond.celeste [at] mail.house.gov or 6.5241).
Sincerely,
/s
Barbara Lee
Member of Congress
/s
Walter B. Jones
Member of Congress