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MoveOn, Edwards Unite to End Iraq WarLiberal activist groups MoveOn.org, USAction, Americans United for Change, VoteVets, and the Service Employees International Union, along with former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife, joined forces Monday to announce a $20-million public awareness and lobbying campaign to promote a perceived link between the war in Iraq and a weakening U.S. economy. "This campaign will raise awareness of the unseen costs of Bush's singular focus on the war in Iraq and his failure to focus on strengthening the American economy, schools, health care and real security, and use the political energy and outrage that the campaign generates to drive Congress to end the war and to get out the anti-war vote," said a written statement released by the campaign. In a conference call with reporters, founders of the Iraq Campaign 2008, as it is named, said the operation will include advertising, anti-war events, and lobbying efforts intended to bring the unpopular war to an end. Eli Pariser, executive director of Moveon.org, said Iraq Campaign 2008 is the biggest grassroots movement of the year (with the exception of the elections). "Our goal remains what it has always been: to end the Iraq War," he said. This campaign will "make the rising costs of the war and the tradeoffs it has forced this country to make a central issue" in this year's elections, said Pariser. According to Jeff Blum, executive director of the liberal Web site USAction.org, the campaign was started partly in response to a poll conducted by his group, which showed that wing voters are concerned about Iraq.
