Please sign the exit strategy petition

It is to demand the US get an exit strategy NOW. Here is the link.
http://www.moveonpac.org/iraq?id=5311-3896788-XMy7u7q1VQ3A2NzjQChvwQ


While Congress is considering an additional $82 billion for Iraq, they should insist that America has an exit strategy from Iraq with a timeline, that we do not construct permanent bases in Iraq and that we end war profiteering by corporations. Please sign our petition urging Congress to act today.


FULL TEXT OF THE PETITION

TO: (Your Representative and Senators)
FROM: (Your Name and Email)
SUBJECT: $82 billion more for Iraq
__________

Dear (senator or representative),

Congress must insist that America have an exit strategy from Iraq with a timeline, that we do not construct permanent bases and that we end war profiteering by corporations.

(Your personal note)






Dear MoveOn member,

Congress has barely debated the war in Iraq or its aftermath since it voted to authorize the use of force in October 2002. Now, the Bush administration is skipping the normal budget process to ask for an additional $82 billion to fund the American presence in Iraq. Among the big-ticket items, a $600 million embassy and some 14 "enduring" bases.<1> Those bases, and the absence of an exit strategy, will worsen, not improve the situation in Iraq.

but we do need to have a goal to work toward.
A time line puts the bad guys in charge of the clock. Set goals that the Iraqis agree with, and we will be home by May Day.

There seems to be a problem of the administration moving goalposts all the time, and the goalposts that are there are kind of fuzzy.

Anyway, goals that are concrete and performable:

• Saddam, Uday and Quesay Hussein are gone, Check
  
• elections held Check
  
• No WMDs in Iraq Check
  
• an elected Iraqi government in place well, almost
  
• Bagdhad as secure as Washington DC or Detroit. Well, almost.
  
  
  If we set thise as the goals, we can go home real soon. And tell the Iraqis that these are the goals, and we will go home after we get them, means we will get them very quickly. They want to see us go, after all.