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Why won't MoveOn move forward? Because it was founded and is controlled by a couple well-to-do Democrats - Wes Boyd and his ilk - who would like to avoid at all costs embarrassing other wealthy Democrats. Publicising the Lee Amendment would do just that - make the Dems who vote it down (which would be almost all) look bad in the eyes of MoveOn's rank-and-file constituency. That is the last thing they want. From its inception, MoveOn has been nominally anti-war, and has mostly functioned as a mechanism to draw progressives into the Democratic Party - where all social movements go to die. A giant case in point was in 2004, when MoveOn played a hefty role in the implosion of the anti-war movement into the Kerry campaign, which almost fatally crippled the movement for over two years. I unsubscribed from MoveOn long ago because of their unprinicpled politics; namely, the fact that they subordinate ending the war to getting (often pro-war) Democrats elected to office.