<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3e4a52de-0f00-4b2e-9b8c-0a5d3ca5295c/1E6B1B5B-A41B-4B33-B755-D8AE6284905A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1413255" href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1413255" style="font-size: 11px;">www.democracynow.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1413255"><P>there should be stronger enforcement in the bill, so that each step along the way, where we’re saying to the President, one, the troops have to be trained, rested and equipped -- we shouldn't be giving him waivers. He can waive those, and he will. </P><P>Then, when we say at each date certain that we want the benchmarks -- we’re going to measure the benchmarks that the President has set and that the Iraqi government is supposed to have met, when they haven’t met those benchmarks, there is nothing in there that says, “And now, here’s what we’re going to do: we’re going to sequester the money, we’re going to now put that money in place to bring our troops home, because obviously the Iraqi government isn’t living up to the benchmarks.” And then, when we get to the end of August 2008 and the war is still going on, we’re going to say to the President, “Alright, now you have to bring them home.” The only way we can force him to do that in this bill is to sue him.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1E6B1B5B-A41B-4B33-B755-D8AE6284905A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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