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Central Valley | Anti-War Rep. Matsui House speech today sounds good, but fails the troops by Dan Bacher Tuesday Feb 13th, 2007 5:08 PM In spite of Rep. Matsui's House speech today, she doesn't support any proposal that brings this war to a close and brings the troops home, according to Maggie Coulter of the Sacramento Coalition to End the War. UPDATE: URGENT NEWS ADVISORY Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Contact: Cres Vellucci, Sacramento Coalition to End the War, 916/996-9170 ATTN: Assignment Desk Rep. Matsui House speech today sounds good, but fails the troops and won't bring war to a close, charges area anti-war coalition SACRAMENTO Rep. Doris Matsui in a speech today on the floor of the House may have spoken "eloquently," but she fails "utterly" to make good on her words, charged a broad-based coalition of anti-war groups here late Tuesday. "Rep. Matsui says she supports several responsible proposals' to bring the war to a close, but in fact she doesn't support any proposal that brings this war to a close and brings the troops home," said Maggie Coulter of the Sacramento Coalition to End the War. The Coalition held a rally Tuesday in front of Matsui's office where they marked 26 straight days of a "peace-in" in her office sporting dozens of purses in an effort to show Matsui that Congress has the ability to stop the war by cutting future war funding. "Doris Matsui speaks passionately and eloquently. But she has utterly failed to make good on her words while more Americans and more civilian Iraqi die. Every day Doris Matsui speaks, but does nothing, people die and US troops remain in harm's way," said Coulter. She noted that Rep. Matsui has signed on only to non-binding resolutions, which are symbolic, and measures such as HR 787 which authorizes a troop withdrawal, but also allow the President to stop the redeployment at any point, and would leave an unspecified number of troops in Iraq in the end. "Congress has the power of the purse strings. It is the one real way it can stop the war. Yet Doris refuses to agree to our lone request vote against future funding for the war. There are billions already allocated to protect our troops. New funding only extends the war," Coulter added. -30- © 20002007 SF Bay Area Independent Media Center. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the SF Bay Area IMC. Disclaimer | Privacy | Contact _________________________________________________________________ Turn searches into helpful donations. Make your search count. http://click4thecause.live.com/search/charity/default.aspx?source=hmemtagline_donation&FORM=WLMTAG
