[Vision2020] Call Senators Craig and Crapo
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thansen@moscow.com
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:55:02 GMT
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> To: "Thomas P. Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>
> From: "Peter Schurman, MoveOn.org" <moveon-help@list.moveon.org>
> Subject: Censure: Call Senators Craig and Crapo
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:27:05 -0800
> -----
> Dear MoveOn member,
>
> This is a key week in our campaign for Censure. Our Senators and
Representatives are home
from DC on recess, so it’s a great time to call their local offices. They've
got to hold
President Bush accountable for deliberately hyping and distorting the facts
about Iraq's
supposed WMDs.
>
> To make an impressive show of support for Censure, we need everyone to help
out. Can you
please call your Senators and Representative now?
>
> Please call them, at:
>
> Congressman Otter
> Local Phone: 208-336-9831
>
> Senator Craig
> Local Phone: 208-342-7985
>
> Senator Crapo
> Local Phone: 208-334-1776
>
> Make sure their staffers know you're a constituent. Then urge your
representatives to
Censure President Bush. Let them know, politely but firmly, why it's important
to you
that he be formally reprimanded.
>
> Please let us know you're calling, at:
>
> http://www.moveon.org/callmadeall3.html?id=2366-1614596-d4IvAaOXykwsEB9e1AtG7Q
>
> We're organizing calls all this week, but we'll only ask you to call once,
and we've timed
the arrival of this email to make it as likely as possible that you'll get
through, if you
call now.
>
> Our Censure campaign has picked up incredible momentum. Already, more than
half a million
MoveOn members have signed onto our petition calling on Congress to censure
President Bush
for misleading us into war.
>
> We're advertising in the Washington Post and on radio stations around the
country, and
we've written letters to our newspaper editors. Now it's time to call.
>
> Americans are outraged. A new poll says "a majority of Americans believe
President Bush
either lied or deliberately exaggerated evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of
mass
destruction in order to justify war." [1] A recent Newsweek cover asks "Will
Anyone Pay?"
[2]
>
> Even Fox News' Bill O'Reilly is now admitting that Bush misled us, saying, "I
was wrong.
I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned
about
this." [3]
>
> The fact is, President Bush was planning for war with Iraq from his first
days in office.
[4] Having made that decision, he ran a campaign of misinformation, hype and
hysteria
that led us into war.
>
> Before the war, Bush was repeatedly told there was no definitive evidence
that Iraq
possessed weapons of mass destruction. [5] He knew Iraq was not a nuclear
threat. [6] He
knew there was no Iraq connection to 9/11. [7] Iraq posed no imminent danger
to the
United States. There was no case for a pre-emptive war.
>
> Yet Bush relentlessly led us into a war that has cost 500 American lives,
left 3,000
seriously injured, and wasted tens of billions of dollars. Thousands of Iraqis
have been
killed as well.
>
> President Bush has betrayed our trust, and there must be consequences.
>
> Please call your Senators and Representative now.
>
> Thank you, for all you do.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> --Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
> The MoveOn.org Team
> February 19th, 2004
>
> P.S.: If you haven't already signed the petition for censure, please do, at:
>
> http://www.moveon.org/censure/
>
>
> Notes:
>
> [1] Washington Post, "Most Think Truth Was Stretched to Justify Iraq War",
2/13/04:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37340-2004Feb12.html
>
> [2] Newsweek, Cover, 2/9/04:
> http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040201/NYSU006
>
> [3] O'Reilly on Good Morning America, as quoted in Reuters, "Pundit O'Reilly
Now Skeptical
About Bush", 2/10/04:
> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4325220
>
> [4] Former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill, 60 Minutes, 1/11/04:
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
>
> [5] "The Selling of the Iraq War: The First Casualty," The New Republic,
6/30/03:
> http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/unmovic/2003/0630selling.htm
> and Defense Intelligence Agency Report, 6/13/03:
> http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Pentagon/us-dod-iraqchemreport-
060703.htm
>
> [6] International Atomic Energy Agency Report, 10/8/98:
> http://www.nci.org/i/iaea10-8-98.htm
> and Washington Post, "Bush Aides Disclose Warnings from CIA", 7/23/03.
>
> [7] Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Bush: No Link to 9/11 Found", 9/18/03:
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/140133_bushiraq18.html
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