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Taking a stand on Iraq

Late last week, Common Cause's National Governing Board approved a resolution calling on the United States to withdraw its troops from Iraq as "expeditiously as possible, consistent with the safety of the troops and Iraqi people." The resolution further called for the establishment of a commission to investigate a range of war-related issues, including whether "the invasion and occupation of Iraq may have resulted in abuses of executive power, disregard for fundamental principles of our democracy, dishonesty in government, deprivations of fundamental civil rights and civil liberties, and misuse of U.S. taxpayer money."

You can read the full text here.

What's your take? For background, take a look at some of Common Cause's "Eye on Iraq" research.

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