In as much as the President of the United States, Barrack Hussein Obama, did successfully authorize and oversee the necessary and appropriate force against the CTO, Chief Terrorist Officer Osama Bin Laden, of the main organization, Al Qaeda, that planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by CTO Bin Laden… as authorized in the 2001 AUMF… be it hereby declared that:
… some of our best Senators have stepped up to the plate to push for a clear withdrawal plan from Afghanistan with a concrete date for completion and the redeployment of American forces from Afghanistan. The Obama administration has announced plans to begin this withdrawal of combat forces in July 2011, but these Senators want a specific timeline and a completion date that provides a clear picture for our troops and for the Afghanistan government to assume their responsibility.
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced the legislation this week, Safe and Responsible Redeployment of United States Combat Forces from Afghanistan that calls for the careful drawdown and redeployment of our troops from Afghanistan and for a concrete timeline to do so. Cosigners of this legislation are Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL).
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) this week introduced the Safe and Responsible Redeployment of United States Combat Forces from Afghanistan Act of 2011, which would express the Senate’s support for President Obama’s plan to begin the withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan in July 2011. It would also require the President to submit to Congress a plan for the phased redeployment of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, including an end date for the completion of that redeployment.
Senator Boxer said, “This legislation makes clear our commitment to begin the phased redeployment of our brave military men and women from Afghanistan this summer and to have a plan in place to responsibly bring home all U.S. combat forces in Afghanistan.”
Senator Gillibrand sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee and she wants the American people to have some degree of certainty in how much longer this war will last.
“America cannot afford an endless war in Afghanistan,” Gillibrand said. “After nearly a decade at war, with still no equal commitment from the Karzai government, and after all the lives we’ve sacrificed and the billions we’ve spent on this war, it’s time to start bringing our troops home. It’s time to put the future and security of Afghanistan in the hands of its own leaders, and focus America’s national security on the emerging and more imminent threats from al Qaeda in other regions.”
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, provided exclusively to The Huffington Post, Gillibrand also requests a Strategic Redeployment Agreement to establish a 2014 end date for combat operations, based on the model used for pull-out from Iraq.
"I am writing out of consideration for our changing national security challenges, my deep concern about the toll that the war in Afghanistan is taking on our troops and our country, and recognition of [the fact] that the Afghan and Pakistani governments are not taking steps critical to the war effort," she writes in the letter. "I believe a clear combat redeployment agreement would help our efforts in Afghanistan by reinforcing Afghan sovereignty and protecting both the readiness and the flexibility we need to meet the full array of global security challenges that confront our country."
It’s time for the guns to be beaten into plowshares to reseed our nation and churn the rich butter to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
You can show your support for these Senate leaders by signing on as a citizen co-sponsor to this legislation here.
Now it’s on to the TOP COMMENTS OF THE DAY submitted from Kossack readers. THANK YOU very much to everyone who took the time to send in these most excellent comments to share with the DailyKos community.
First off... a big announcement... drumroll please...
From smileycreek:
Starting Monday, May 23rd, Meteor Blades will start linking to both Top Comments and jotter's High Impact Diaries in his Open Thread for Night Owls series, just like you used to be linked to Open Thread and Diary Rescue back in DK3. Hopefully this will get you more notice and more submissions!
From ontheleftcoast:
If at first you don’t secede... This comment from quaoar tells it like it is... from the front-page story Rick Perry becomes latest name floated as 2012 savior for Republican Party by Jed Lewison.
From Pandoras Box:
This comment from blue aardvark tickled my funny bone ... from OMFG I'm a Nazi! by LaFeminista.
From Dragon5616:
A funny thread kicked off by dalfireplug about a not-so-funny Tennessee bill. gchaucer2 and commonmass join in the fun, too, in Jen Sorensen's magnificent Slowpoke diary Keepin' Em Straight Through Grade Eight.
From bronte17 (tonight’s diarist):
A repeat on good news and a BIG “Thank You”:
Found a pleasant surprise today in the daily High Impact Diaries from jotter. That sweetheart of a kossack smileycreek was thoughtful enough to send an inquiry to Meteor Blades requesting that Top Comments and Jotter's Daily High Impact Diary series be front-paged every evening again… and it’s a done deal. Starting Monday, May 23rd, Top Comments and High Impact Diaries will be front-paged once again.
So, a big "Thank You" and hat tip to smileycreek.
Real life facts contradict the Republican lying liars and the lies they tell... such as No one in the United States is uninsured... because Americans have access to emergency room care, yet over the past 20 years the number of emergency rooms in the US has dropped more than 27%.
erratic compares the use of emergency rooms as health care policy in Disappearing Emergency Rooms Expose GOP Health Care Farce by Avenging Angel.
And k9disc notes the subversion by the GOP of the words Right to Work in the excellent diary Some musings on Political Slogans: Reclaiming the Right-to-Work by NY brit expat.
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