BUSH LIES DEPT.: MoveOn Getting NATIONAL NEWS COVERAGE
The campaign to demand the truth on Iraq has gathered widespread
attention in the national news media. Articles on the petition have
appeared in the Washington Post, AP, Reuters, the Boston Globe, and
hundreds of other papers around the country and around the world.
Here's an excerpt from the Washington Post.
Antiwar Groups Say Public Ire Over Iraq Claims Is Increasing
by Evelyn Nieves
Washington Post, July 22, 2003
commondreams.org
SAN FRANCISCO -- The letters are pouring in like a water main break --
fast and, yes, furious. From Alabama: "We want to know the truth!"
>From Arizona: "If there's nothing to hide, what's the harm in a
bipartisan inquiry?" From Mississippi: "We must get to the truth --
whatever it is!"
About 400,000 people from every state have contacted members of
Congress in the past three weeks as part of a MoveOn.org petition that
asks Congress to investigate the controversial claims that led to the
war on Iraq, with more than 50,000 people signing on to the liberal
activist Web site in the past five days alone.
"It seems more and more people who supported the war are signing on,"
said Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org's campaigns director. "They're angry.
People who in the past couple of weeks before the war decided to
support it are swinging back."
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