The Nation: Chellie Pingree Offers Petraeus an Exit Strategy

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Chellie was featured on TheNation.com yesterday, where John Nichols wrote:

Petraeus should be listening to Congress, which is, after all, supposed to be providing the civilian leadership that the Constitution says guide decisions about where the U.S. military is deployed and for how long.

And those members of the House who confront Petraeus would be wise to borrow a page from a candidate who would like to join them.

Former Common Cause president Chellie Pingree, who is seeking an open House seat from Maine, says "There is a way to get out of Iraq." As part of her campaign, she is asking supporters to email Petraeus and urge the general to read the Responsible Plan to End the War."

Nichols also quoted an email Pingree sent out yesterday:

"I helped create the Responsible Plan with other progressive Congressional candidates and military and national security experts because we believed there is no justification for our continued presence in Iraq," says Pingree. "The billions of dollars we've spent in Iraq are billions of dollars we haven't spent rebuilding our own economy -- fixing our schools, our roads, and our broken health care system. It's time to end the war in Iraq responsibly, bring our troops home, and stop spending $400 million a day on a war that most Americans now agree is unwinnable."

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