Netroots Push For "No" Votes On War-Funding Bill (VIDEO)

In anticipation of Tuesday's House vote on the war supplemental spending bill, which still includes money for the International Monetary Fund but not the detainee photo ban, online activists on both sides of the political spectrum are pushing key members of Congress to kill the war bill.

The antiwar left is trying to lock down congressmen who signed a 2007 pledge not to approve further war funding without an exit strategy. Meanwhile, the anti-IMF right is leaning on Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats who supported the doomed 2007 bill, which would have imposed harsh economic sanctions on Iran, a recipient of funding from the IMF.

Working with Jane Hamsher's FireDogLake, documentary filmmaker and activist Robert Greenwald recorded a series of 11 videos asking the residents of individual states to call their representatives and either thank them for opposing the supplemental or urge them to oppose it.

"I've just returned from a trip to Afghanistan as part of Brave New Films' 'Rethink Afghanistan' campaign, and I can tell you that the third poorest country in the world does not need an infusion of billions of wasted dollars on military solutions to very deep and profound problems," Greenwald said in the video directed at a Massachusetts audience. "The problems are political, they're economic and they're social. Forty percent unemployment in Afghanistan will not be cured by sending over foreign troops who become organizing elements for the Taliban."

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[Lasnoe]

I like how he brings up the unemployment problem in Afghanistan, pretending to know what would or wouldn't help..... When we have unemployment numbers here in the states rapidly going up and the proposed solutions from the left are counter intuitive at best!

-To raise taxes on people who make over 150k (250 couple)
-To increase restrictions on many manufacturers and certain industries.
-To raise taxes on energy.
-To increase the deficit and spending that borrowed money in sectors they only see fit. (Acorn, unionized jobs, construction workers that aren't white males.... not my words... theirs!)
-To borrow and spend trillions on a new health care system when the nation is on the verge of going bankrupt....

[dantanna]

BO's GWB like tactics need to be stopped NOW!

[WierdWookie]

I agree, O never kept his word on the "out in the open" business of war funding.

[loki]

Im not a neo anything. Im half a century. But I dont think any war funding should be passed because we were told that unlike the Bush administration , our budgets would not exclude the war funding, it would be added and out in the open. The budget was already passed, so that included the war funding. IF the President had told us the truth, this would be a moot point.

[Kungfublood]

Only the GOP would leave a solder in harms war with no way out (exit strategy) & no body armor & showers that electrocute them and order them to massacre the civilian population etc...

[TJCole]

Really the Naked Short Sellers on Wall St. have been doing a good job killing our troops in Iraq..by killing the production of MRAPS...and making beuque bucks doing it...!

[Kungfublood]

The logic problem for the delusionists & apologists on the right seems to be that you can't end the war without stopping the profits.
To end war, one must stop.

[Okieborn]

I would rather lay my money down for a full withdraw !!!

[marignymitch]

Obama' plans for staying in Iraq and escalating the war in Iraq won't be thwarted. We are on a permanent war footing on orders from our corporate overlords.

[marignymitch]

should be: escalating the war in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

[whoa20]

the corporations, the corporations, the evil corporations?

[sarabono]

Forget the IMF. It appears that is just another $100 Billion dollar give away of money we don't have and must borrow from the Chinese. It would be better if Obama talked the Chinese into $100 Billion for the IMF if he considers it so important.

[LemonMeringue]

Think about this:

The war is still making Dick Cheney and his friends wealthier and wealthier. Every day.

[LeeCalif]

And the 2nd No vote will be regarding funding for Pelosi.

[rattler99]

she is a total Peloser

[JakeMontero]

I think the President has got it right

[whoa20]

I think the netroots really need to stop thinking they own the party. They don't. They think they own Obama too, and they may, or may not. I hope not, because on foreign policy, the netroots are cracked.

[LemonMeringue]

The Republicans are still paying the price for underestimating how many people the netroots represents.

We are minions and we will not be silenced.

[whoa20]

you will be if many netroots foreign policy ideas, instead of anti-ideas get out there. Foreign policy is no place for radicalism, right OR left.

[drzoon]

AGREE!!

[FrozenNorthObserver]

too late to "own" O. the banksters and the other big corporate donors got that ownership quite a while back.

[jordan3189]

Let's see how patriotic the left REALLY is.

[Coinyer101]

Kucinich 2012!

[LemonMeringue]

If only!!!!!!

[drzoon]

OH GOD!

[Kaves]

Abso-lutely!