Hi Laz...Re: Emails, etc flooding DC...~~~Hollywood thinks they can run the world, and the Administration just like they did last Administration. Good thing they have lots of money...IF we are attacked here, all of us (that are left standing) could sue all of them who were involved in the "stop the war" events that have just emboldened Saddam, AQ and any number of other terrorist/murdering organizations.
Feb 26, 2003
Anti-War Protestors Flood Senate, White House Offices With Calls in "virtual March"
By Vanessa Palo
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Anti-war protesters on Wednesday made hundreds of thousands of phone calls and sent faxes and e-mails to senators and the White House to voice their opposition to a war on Iraq as part of a "virtual march" on the nation's capital.
Senators, regardless of their position on the war, were barraged with calls. Other calls to both Democrat and Republican Senate offices could not be completed because of busy circuits.
"We will let out fingers do the marching and demand that our voices be heard," said Tom Andrews, the national director for Win for War, the group that organized the protest.
Andrews said about 400,000 people had registered through the group's website for the call-in campaign. By Wednesday afternoon, he projected the number of calls made and faxes sent exceeded 1 million.
The office of Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. received more than 800 calls in a nearly four-hour span Wednesday morning, about twice the number of calls it usually receives. Durbin has opposed unilateral action in Iraq.
Durbin's spokesman Joe Shoemaker also said his office had received 18,000 e-mails since Tuesday afternoon, more than five times the number usually received.
The office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said their office was also flooded with calls, and some people were unable to get through. Feinstein voted to authorize the president to use military force to disarm Iraq if necessary.
"No one expressed annoyance," said Andrews, a former Democratic congressman from Maine. His group sent Senate staffers gift baskets for handling the increased calls and faxes.
House members were not targeted in the virtual protest.
AP-ES-02-26-03 1459EST
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