Council for a Livable World today hailed the House of Representatives’ anti-missile defense vote very late Saturday night.

Council for a Livable World’s PeacePAC announced today that it had named former Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder to become its new Chair. Schroeder succeeds the late Father Robert F Drinan, who passed away in January after a long and distinguished career in public service.

Council for a Livable World today applauded the House of Representatives for overwhelmingly voting, 399 to 24, to bar permanent military bases in Iraq.

Council for a Livable World likened the struggle to bring American troops home from Iraq to the slow trench warfare of World War I, not the Blitzkrieg of World War II, after this morning’s Senate vote on the Levin-Reed amendment.

Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (USA, ret.), Senior Military Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and Brig. Gen. John Johns (USA, ret.), Board Member at Council for a Livable World, laid out their vision for disengagement from Iraq in a recent op-ed in New Hampshire’s Keene Sentinel titled “Iraq: Where do we go from here?�