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Eleanor Clift has an article at Newsweek Online detailing the efforts by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) to undermine the missions of U.S. troops in Iraq and call for surrender to al-Qaida in Iraq.  The group is involved in a summer push to pressure lawmakers to call it quits and declare defeat in Iraq.  You can read more about their current activities - HERE.

AAEI has been hiring activists as part of their “Iraq Summer” campaign as part of an effort to “fracture critical elements of the Republican base of support for the war by early fall.”

Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) plans to deploy 110 organizers to the Districts of critical House and Senate Republicans who still support the President’s disastrous policy in Iraq.  There (sic) job will be to execute a national program to help fracture critical elements of the Republican base of support for the war by early fall.

The group recently made news for staking out Senator Mitch McConnell’s (R-Kentucky) house. 

One of the main funding sources for AAEI is money from labor unions.  Another source of muscle behind the group is MoveOn.org which provides not only a source of money but the bodies for grassroots activism drills.  MoveOn.org claims to have more than 3 million people, and a significant number of the group’s members were active in Howard Dean’s presidential campaign.

A Different Message:  Victory in Iraq

There’s a different message being put out by Vice President Dick Cheney who has been more active with public appearances and interviews with the press these past few days.

Vice President Cheney delivered a speech to the Marine Corps League yesterday, calling Iraq the central front in the war on terrorism.

“Terrorists are under no illusion about the importance of the struggle in Iraq… Iraq’s relevance to the war on terror simply could not be more plain… And here at home, that makes one thing, above all, very clear. If you support the war on terror, then you ought to support it where the terrorists are fighting us… This is no time to lose heart and make a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, as some in Congress are demanding… To quit this fight would be to lose this fight, and the consequences would be grievous.”

The above actions represent the efforts of people with two different approaches towards the war in Iraq.

We here at Move America Forward will work with anyone of any party, Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or Independent or otherwise, so long as it involves supporting our troops, AND their missions, and rooting for them to come home victorious and not in defeat.