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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (427010)	7/14/2003 7:56:35 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

BUSH LIES DEPT.: PETITION YOUR CONGRESSMAN TO GET THE INVESTIGATION STARTED MoveOn.org is organizing an online petition to demand Congressional inquiries into the queer way that the Bush Crime Family hornswaggled us into a dirty little war for fun and profit. Here's their info: Dear MoveOn member, It's exciting: the campaign to get to the bottom of the Bush administration's distortion of evidence on Iraq is really taking off. Over 330,000 of us have signed the petition asking Congress to investigate -- already one of our largest petitions ever. We'll be delivering another batch of comments to the House of Representatives on Wednesday, and we know many House staff are excited and moved by what MoveOn members have sent thus far. And since we launched this campaign on Thursday, 11 Representatives have become co-sponsors of legislation for an investigation. If we work together, we can hit 350,000 signers by Wednesday, and really impress Congress. But we'll need your help. 1,584 people have already signed the petition to Congressman Walden. Our goal is to hit 2,000; we can do it if everyone who signed brings in a few more people. Please take a moment to forward the message below to your friends, and urge them to sign on now at: moveon.org You can automatically generate a message in most mail programs just by clicking here. On Thursday, we also launched a new hard-hitting "Misleader" TV ad which asks whether the president misused intelligence to make the case for war. The ad says, "George Bush told us Iraq was a nuclear threat. He said they were trying to purchase uranium. That they were rebuilding their nuclear facilities. So we went to war. Now, there’s evidence we were misled. And almost every day, Americans are dying in Iraq. We need the truth, not a cover-up. Log on to misleader.org today." Since Thursday, the ad has appeared (for free) on the news programs of CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, PBS, and NPR, and was covered on the Washington Post on Friday. You can check it out at: misleader.org Please take a moment to ask your friends and family to join the call. Just forward the message below. (Please only reach out to folks who you know personally and who want to hear from you on this -- Spam hurts the campaign.) Together, we can make sure that the truth on Iraq is told. Sincerely, --Eli Pariser MoveOn.org July 14th, 2003 Here's the message to send to your friends: Subject: WMDs: Help us reach 2,000 signers by Weds. Dear friend, The President took the nation to war based on his assertion that Iraq posed an imminent threat to our country. Now the evidence that backed that assertion is falling apart. I've joined over 330,000 other people in calling on Congress to investigate at MoveOn.org. 1,584 other people from our Congressional district have already signed, but we're shooting for 2,000. Please take a moment to help us get there by signing on at: moveon.org If the Bush administration distorted intelligence or knowingly used false data to support the call to war, it would be an unprecedented deception. Even if weapons are now found, it'll be difficult to justify pre-war language that indicated that the exact location of the weapons was known and that they were ready to deploy at a moment's notice. With a crisis of credibility brewing abroad and the integrity of our President and our foreign policy on the line, we need answers now. Please ask your Representative to pledge his or her support for an open investigation at: moveon.org A President may make no more important decision than whether or not to take a country to war. If Bush and his officials deceived the American public to create support for the Iraq war, they need to be held accountable. Thanks.

To: tejek who wrote (427010)	7/14/2003 9:32:36 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't think our relationship with any European nation is in danger of being compromised unless we find evidence to prove otherwise in the millions of documents that have been unearthed in Iraq. Every side admits that there will be disagreements between allies regarding foreign affairs, and that we always manage to work through those issues, and I'm confident that is true. What I'm not confident about is whether any European country was doing anything to subvert our efforts to stem the tide of terrorist activity. I haven't seen any evidence that this is so, but I am sceptical none the less, and hope I am wrong. That is the difference between me and a liberal......I'm not willing to make unfounded accusations against anyone unless or until I have definitive proof. I am also sober enough to realize that our country went through an unrealistic tech bubble that couldn't possibly be sustained, and that the events of 9/11 added to the problem. Since March of 2000 we have been going through an adjustment that was inevitable. Unlike liberals who will paint a gloomy picture and flat out lie to further their agenda of regaining power at any cost.....which I find very disgusting. The tactics they use to gain that lost power is what I find so ridiculous as to be funny. M