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(STATEWIDE) As 3,000 National Guard soldiers head for Iraq in Wisconsin’s largest single deployment in decades, there's a movement afoot to prevent future deployments.

The “Bring the Guard Home” campaign wants to force Governor Doyle to challenge the legality of the ongoing guard deployments to Iraq. Campaign spokesman Ben Manski says legislation will soon be introduced that would grant the Governor the right to refuse to send any more troops overseas. Manski says the executive order authorizing the use of force in Iraq has expired because it was limited to the removal of Saddam Hussein and the disarming of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

"Certainly if this legislation had been on the books by now, then the governor would have been directed to review the call-up order for its legality,” explains Manski. “And it's certainly our view that the authorization which is the basis for guard deployment to Iraq has expired and it would be incumbent on the Governor to take action to insure the guard was not sent over to Iraq."

Manski says fourteen other states are considering similar legislation.

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This news story appeared as a radio broadcast on the statewide network of Wisconsin Public Radio. No audio archive of the story is known to be available.

Areas of Focus:

Defense Reform (Bring The Guard Home), Democratizing Defense, Iraq (Bring The Guard Home)

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