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MoveOn.org ::: Censure Bush!
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| LuNaSeA |
hey guys,
i'm not sure if this is the right place to post it... but on the site www.moveon.org, are massive articles/supported + backed up news facts about bush and the need for congress to censure him bc of his lies re: war w/ iraq, the non-existant weapons of mass distruction.. please take a minute to skim/read thru this and help censure bush by clicking on this link:
http://www.moveon.org/censure/
this is their campaign message.:
Dear MoveOn member,
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> 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 |
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| LuNaSeA |
| actually, no i wanted to post it in the NY forum- but if someone wants to move it to political discussion, then be my guest. |
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| Wheel of Steel |
| I will continue to let bush keep making a fool of himself, so he will lose the election why try to keep him qiuet, let him dig his own grave... |
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| galdamez |
I'm glad this was posted in the NY forum. It needs to be read. |
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| intelligent77 |
HAHAHA.. i think this is funny.. of course you guys won't like me cuz i'm apart of the Right Wing Conspiracy.. i work for the republican party.. and better yet.. it looks like i'm going to be working on the site that is the republican version of moveon.org
you don't have to agree with me at all.. i just thought it was funny! that i am getting hired to work against this site in perticular... privately invested of course!! just like moveon's privately invested.. but they are getting in trouble for some of the lies they've placed online.. hahahahaha.... |
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| intelligent77 |
well at least i know that my husband wasn't there in vain...
iraq needed to be rid of Sadamn... why keep such recklass hate and evil over there
weapons of mass destruction or not...
...how many of you think it was okay for CHILDREN to be slaughtered? and people to be surpressed the way they were...
everyone is so quick to judge for their whatever reasons.. but i've seen the behind the scene pictures... i almost puked... and to see REAL dead people like that is HORRIFYING.. let alone to know some of the horrifying thing Sadamn Insane did...WTF? I'm not complaining!!!
watch your kid or girlfriend die in your arms from a dictatorship such as his.. and tell me it wasn't worth it! |
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| AddictedTo1982 |
| quote: | Originally posted by galdamez
I'm glad this was posted in the NY forum. It needs to be read. |
Yeah I know bwhahahaha |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Wheel of Steel
I will continue to let bush keep making a fool of himself, so he will lose the election why try to keep him qiuet, let him dig his own grave... |
That approach makes more sense in reality.
Let's hope he does more interviews, because I really enjoyed watching him bumble through the last one. ;) |
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| galdamez |
| quote: | Originally posted by intelligent77
iraq needed to be rid of Sadamn... why keep such recklass hate and evil over there |
At the expense of our billions of tax dollars? American lives? Come on, there's violence and hate all over the world. You don't even have to look very far. We've got people suffering in this country with the crime as it is.
In my dad's home country (El Salvador) they've been at war for the past 20 years. Many other places have feuds going on, such as North/South Korea, Ireland, Israel, and the Middle East. When you have war and corrupt leaders you're going to have inhumane acts, but you just can't expect the U.S. to save the day and make the world a better place. We've got problems of our own to deal with! I don't doubt Iraq was a crappy place to live in over the last 10 years, but have you noticed the U.S. is not dropping any bombs on China? Why? Because there's vested interests in the Middle East (i.e. oil, weapons making).
People are getting rich by making weapons of war and aiding in the reconstruction of the newly conquered lands. I think it's no secret that even our own Vice President used to be the CEO of the corporation that is now in charge of rebuilding Iraq.
If the U.S. did Iraq such a huge favor, then why are so many Iraqis seeking the help of the Taliban to get U.S. forces out of the country? One would think that we would be welcome after doing them such a huge favor, no? |
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