U.S. activists ask Congress to withhold Iraq funds

MSNBC ^ | 09/24/03 | Staff Writer

[bedolido]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 — U.S. anti-war activists launched a national advertising campaign on Wednesday urging Congress to withhold new funds for Iraq unless the White House agrees to transfer authority to the United Nations.

Tom Andrews, a former Democratic representative from Maine and director of the Win Without War coalition group, said the television and print advertisements were designed to force lawmakers to address public unease over the U.S. role in Iraq.

[Arpege92]

Yep, sounds right to me....first hand over the power to the U.N. and then allow them to use OUR money however they want! /sarcasm

[Tai_Chung]

...urging Congress to withhold new funds for Iraq unless the White House agrees to transfer authority to the United Nations

I would love to see this strategy taken by the Democrats. Sure, Americans support burden-sharing but not the wholesale transfer of billions of dollars to some United Nations controlled-agency. The Democrats will lose big-time if they take this stand.

[prairiebreeze]

More proof that left-wing liberal activists are hateful racists.

Prairie

[wizardoz]

Ah, I see, hold the welfare of the Iraqi people hostage until Bush caves. So much for their bleeding hearts and crocodile tears for the poor, suffering Iraqi and Afghani people. Now it turns out they can starve if that earns someone some satisfaction and political clout.

I'm thinking of Solomon and the two women who fought over the child. These folks remind me of the woman who said, "Go ahead, then, cut him in half! If I can't have him, no one will."

[kaktuskid]

Then you would not have supported using our $ to rebuild Germany and Japan??(knowing that if we didn't they would have become Communist and/or neo-facicst states!)

[yoe]

Congress to withhold new funds for Iraq unless the White House agrees to transfer authority to the United Nations.Must have been something either Mrs. Clinton or Wesley Clark said to give him such a notion.........