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Old 02-09-2004, 06:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
mrbuck12000
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Censure Bush

The following came to me because I am on the:

http://www.moveon.org mailing list and i thought i would help to get it out there and help them keep it going.

If this violates the forum rules anyway shape or form...let me know and i it will be changed.

mr b......
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<b>Click on the image below to join our call on Congress to censure President Bush.</font>
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Dear MoveOn member,
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The response to our "Censure" campaign has been incredible. In just days, more than 250,000 people have joined our call on Congress to censure President Bush for misleading us in his rush to war -- a response among the strongest we've ever seen.
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The response was so strong, in fact, that you may have had trouble accessing our website to sign on. We've now taken steps to ensure that you'll be able to get through.
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Tomorrow, we'll present our campaign to Congress at a press conference in Washington. We'll be joined by former top intelligence officers and by
parents whose children have been injured and killed while serving in the military in Iraq.
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With your help, we can make our statement even more powerful -- we're aiming for 300,000 signatures on our petition by tomorrow. We can also reach a major milestone in MoveOn's history: our two-millionth U.S. member. True Majority, Working Assets, and the Win Without War coalition are also joining us in this campaign.
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Please join our call on Congress to censure President Bush at:
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&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.moveon.org/censure/?id=2313-3571696-AItLl9Xe4xyNMpHKNKR3lA">http://www.moveon.org/censure/</a>
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Please also take a moment to pass this message along to people you know.
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President Bush's interview with Tim Russert yesterday showed that our campaign is more important than ever. Bush is still trying to mislead us with statements like, "I expected to find the weapons [because] I based my decision on the best intelligence possible." The facts show the opposite, of course, as outlined below.
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There must be consequences when a President takes us to war based on assertions he knows are untrue. We've simply got to demand it.
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Thank you. Together, our voices really will make a difference.
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Sincerely,
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- Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;The MoveOn.org Team<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;Monday, February 9, 2004
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P.S.: Here's our original message introducing the "Censure" campaign.
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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." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54353-2004Jan27.html">1</a>
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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." <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html">2</a>
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Now David Kay, the CIA’s chief weapons inspector, has testified before Congress that these weapons do not exist.
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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. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3980-2004Feb1.html">3</a>
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But the facts need no clarification. Despite repeated warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, President Bush and his administration hyped and distorted the threat that Iraq posed. <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24889">4</a> And now that reality is setting in, the President wants to pin the blame on someone else. We can't let him.
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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:
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&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.moveon.org/censure/?id=2313-3571696-AItLl9Xe4xyNMpHKNKR3lA">http://www.moveon.org/censure/</a>
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It's clear that we’ve been misled:
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<LI> 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." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/international/middleeast/26KAY.html">5</a> Kay said these things shortly after resigning from his post as Bush's chief weapons inspector in Iraq.
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<LI> 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." <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html">6</a> 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." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html">7</a>
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<LI> 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." <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3340723/">8</a>
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It's also clear that the misleading was deliberate:
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<LI> The respected Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently found that the administration "systematically misrepresented the threat" from Iraq. <a href="http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Iraq3GuideFind_SummRec.pdf">9</a>
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<LI> The basis for President Bush's African uranium claim was known at the time to be forged and not credible.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/international/worldspecial/08PREX.html">10</a> "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.<a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/6362092.htm">11</a>
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<LI> 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--."<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/030609/20030609040506.php">12</a>
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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.
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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.
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Join our call on Congress to censure President Bush at:
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&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.moveon.org/censure/?id=2313-3571696-AItLl9Xe4xyNMpHKNKR3lA">http://www.moveon.org/censure/</a>
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We'll be holding a press conference in Washington on Thursday, announcing our campaign for Censure. If you sign on now, we can count your signature at the press conference. Please sign on right away.
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Thank you.
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Sincerely,
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- Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;The MoveOn.org Team<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;Tuesday, February 3, 2004
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Footnotes:
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1. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54353-2004Jan27.html">Washington Post, January 28, 2004</a>
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2. <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html">Official White House transcript, March 17, 2003</a>
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3. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3980-2004Feb1.html">Washington Post, February 2, 2004</a>
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4. An excellent, comprehensive rundown on the Bush administration's deliberate distortion of intelligence is available from the <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24889">Center for American Progress</a><br>
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5. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/international/middleeast/26KAY.html">New York Times, January 26, 2004</a>
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6. <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html">Official White House transcript, January 28, 2003</a>
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7. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html">Joseph Wilson Op-Ed, New York Times, July 6, 2003</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Note: Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, had her CIA cover blown, possibly by the White House, in apparent retaliation for Wilson's contradicting the White House's line on WMDs.
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8. <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3340723/">MSNBC News, Oct. 24, 2003</a>
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9. <a href="http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Iraq3GuideFind_SummRec.pdf">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report, "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications", January, 2004</a>
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10. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/international/worldspecial/08PREX.html">New York Times, July 8, 2003</a>
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11. <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/6362092.htm">Washington Post News Service, July 23, 2003</a>
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12. <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/030609/20030609040506.php">US News & World Report, June 9, 2003</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Note: This article with the Powell quote is available for purchase from the US News & World Report archives for $2.95.
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