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| decibel08 |
if you have a minute please consider reading the following and signing the online petition. thanks
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> The response to our "Censure" campaign has been incredible. In
> just days, more than 250,000 people have joined our call on
> Congress to censure President Bush for misleading us in his rush to
> war -- a response among the strongest we've ever seen.
>
> The response was so strong, in fact, that you may have had trouble
> accessing our website to sign on. We've now taken steps to ensure
> that you'll be able to get through.
>
> Tomorrow, we'll present our campaign to Congress at a press
> conference in Washington. We'll be joined by former top
> intelligence officers and by
> parents whose children have been injured and killed while serving
> in the military in Iraq.
>
> With your help, we can make our statement even more powerful --
> we're aiming for 300,000 signatures on our petition by tomorrow.
> We can also reach a major milestone in MoveOn's history: our
> two-millionth U.S. member. True Majority, Working Assets, and the
> Win Without War coalition are also joining us in this campaign.
>
> Please join our call on Congress to censure President Bush at:
>
> http://www.moveon.org/censure/
>
> Please also take a moment to pass this message along to people you
> know.
>
> President Bush's interview with Tim Russert yesterday showed that
> our campaign is more important than ever. Bush is still trying to
> mislead us with statements like, "I expected to find the weapons
> [because] I based my decision on the best intelligence possible."
> The facts show the opposite, of course, as outlined below.
>
> There must be consequences when a President takes us to war based
> on assertions he knows are untrue. We've simply got to demand it.
>
> Thank you. Together, our voices really will make a difference.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> --Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
> The MoveOn.org Team
> Monday, February 9, 2004
>
> P.S.: Here's our message introducing the "Censure" campaign:
>
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> During the buildup to war, President Bush said the United States
> "must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear
> evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the
> smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud....
> We have every reason to assume the worst, and we have an urgent
> duty to prevent the worst from occurring." [1]
>
> On the eve of sending troops into battle, Bush asserted that
> "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no
> doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of
> the most lethal weapons ever devised." [2]
>
> Now David Kay, the CIA's chief weapons inspector, has testified
> before Congress that these weapons do not exist.
>
> In an attempt to evade responsibility for the misleading statements
> that pushed the nation into war, Bush has announced plans to form
> an independent inquiry to look into what went wrong. An inquiry
> would serve the Bush administration well: it would envelop the
> issue in a fog of uncertainty, deflect blame onto the intelligence
> services, and delay any political damage until 2005, after the
> upcoming election. [3]
>
> But the facts need no clarification. Despite repeated warnings
> from the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, President Bush and
> his administration hyped and distorted the threat that Iraq posed.
> [4] And now that reality is setting in, the President wants to pin
> the blame on someone else. We can't let him.
>
> Congress has the power to censure the President -- to formally
> reprimand him for betraying the nation's trust. If ever there was
> a time for this, it's now. Join our call on Congress to censure
> President Bush at:
>
>
>
http://www.moveon.org/censure/?id=2...arP17vvI79m03Iw
>
> It's clear that we've been mislead:
>
> * David Kay said last week, "I'm personally convinced that there
> were not large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass
> destruction," and "We don't find the people, the documents or the
> physical plants that you would expect to find if the production was
> going on." Kay said these things shortly after resigning from his
> post as Bush's chief weapons inspector in Iraq. [5]
>
> * Bush, in his 2003 State of the Union address, said, "the British
> government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought
> significant quantities of uranium from Africa." [6] Yet Ambassador
> Joe Wilson, who was sent to Niger in February 2002 to determine
> whether Iraq was trying to purchase uranium materials there,
> concluded that "intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons
> program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat." [7]
>
> * A CIA report in February 2003 said: "We do not have any direct
> evidence that Iraq has used the period since [1998] to reconstitute
> its Weapons of Mass Destruction programs." [8]
>
> It's also clear that the misleading was deliberate:
>
> * The respected Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently
> found that the administration "systematically misrepresented the
> threat" from Iraq. [9]
>
> * The basis for President Bush's African uranium claim was known at
> the time to be forged [10] and not credible. "Top White House
> officials knew that the CIA seriously disputed the claim that
> Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium in Africa long before the claim
> was included in Bush's January address to the nation," according to
> the Washington Post. [11]
>
> * Secretary of State Colin Powell became alarmed at the level of
> intelligence distortion. When he read the first draft of his
> speech to the UN -- prepared for Powell by Vice President Dick
> Cheney's chief of staff -- he was so upset that he lost his temper,
> throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading
> this. This is bullsh--." [12]
>
> Our democracy only works when we know the truth. We now know
> President Bush and his administration deliberately misled Congress
> and the American people. Censure is the least we should expect in
> response.
>
> The independent inquiry will need a year or more to come to a
> conclusion, according to the Bush administration. It took less
> time than that for the country to go to war. We don't need more
> investigation, we need accountability, and we need it now.
>
> Join our call on Congress to censure President Bush at:
>
>
>
http://www.moveon.org/censure/?id=2...arP17vvI79m03Iw
>
> We'll be holding a press conference in Washington on Tuesday,
> February 10th, announcing our campaign for Censure. If you sign on
> now, we can count your signature at the press conference. Please
> sign on right away.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> --Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
> The MoveOn.org Team
> Monday, February 9, 2004
>
> [1]
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...-2004Jan27.html
>
> [2] http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/rele...20030317-7.html
>
> [3]
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...0-2004Feb1.html
>
> [4] An excellent, comprehensive rundown on the Bush
> administration's deliberate distortion of intelligence is available
> at:
> http://www.americanprogress.org/sit...JRJ8OVF&b=24889
>
> [5]
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/i...east/26KAY.html
>
> [6]
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/rele...0030128-19.html
>
> [7] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html
> Note: Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, had her CIA cover blown,
> possibly by the White House, in apparent retaliation for Wilson's
> contradicting the White House's line on WMDs.
>
> [8] http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3340723/
>
> [9] http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Iraq3...ind_SummRec.pdf
>
> [10]
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/i...ial/08PREX.html
>
> [11] http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiheral...ion/6362092.htm
>
> [12]
>
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/...30609040506.php
> Note: The article with the Powell quote is available for
> purchase from the US News & World Report archives for $2.95.
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| dj_ilan_yosef |
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| NeoPhono |
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