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DEL.ICIO.USJohn Lewis on one side, Hank Johnson in the middle in the debate over Iraq
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On tonight’s broadcast of PBS’ “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” two Georgia Democrats were featured in a piece on the U.S. House effort to use the budget to bring an end next year to U.S. military involvement in Iraq.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Atlanta) is part of the whip effort to keep Democrats in line. “I’m not prepared to vote for another dollar or another dime to support this war. It is time to bring our young men and our young women home,” he said.
But U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-DeKalb County), the man who booted anti-war activist Cynthia McKinney from office, is among those unsure about the efffort.
Says Johnson: “The people of the Fourth District by and large are ready for this war to come to an end, and the want to see a cessation of deaths of United States soldiers in combat on the streets of Iraq and they want to see that happen now.
“Politically, the reality is that you just can’t yank the troops off the streets. You just can’t leave them without the funding they need in order to wind this process down.”
Here is the audio.
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By Black Republican
March 22, 2007 11:30 PM | Link to this
And you think Hank Johnson is better than McKinney! Give me a break! I would rather have 435 McKinneys than 1 Johnson in the House. I agree with John Lewis! No more DOLLARS!
By Common Sense
March 23, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this
How will they get home without a plane ticket? All this bring them home now nonsense is nothing but political posturing by the dems.
Hank is being pragmatic. Even if dems get the Whitehouse back we’ll still be in Iraq in 2009…
Its no wonder Dekalb is so screwed up with its residents like BR wishing they had that moonbat Cynthia McKinney back…