Demand Accountability for the Response to Katrina (independ. counsel)

[rodeodance]

I got this as an email.


----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hughes, Democracy for America
To: xxxx
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:19 PM
Subject: Demand Accountability for the Response to Katrina


Dear xxxx,

Last Thursday, Jim Dean called for the White House to quit dodging responsibility for mishandling the response to Hurricane Katrina. Since then, over 32,000 people have joined the drive to get the White House to establish an Independent Commission to find out what went wrong and make sure it never happens again.

That's a good start -- but to get the Bush administration's attention, we need to gather enough signatures to send an unmistakable message that Americans want answers. We need to get 50,000 people to support an Independent Commission -- by Wednesday.

Sign the petition:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/accountability

We saw the scenes of thousands stranded in the devastation of New Orleans. We heard the stories about whole Mississippi towns still overlooked by FEMA a week after the storm. Yet Bush still has his team of political cronies -- complete with Michael 'Heck of a Job' Brown, the director of FEMA -- in place to lead the recovery effort, despite their record of costly mistakes.

This is madness. We know the people of the Gulf Coast need massive help in rebuilding their lives. They can't afford more mistakes. That's why this recovery effort needs sound, experienced leadership. We can only get that by finding the sources of the mistakes and rooting them out.

Let's get 50,000 signatures on the petition for an Independent Commission by Wednesday. Sign it now:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/accountability

Bush's press secretary gave Americans who want accountability the back of his hand last week. He wrote off the outcry about Katrina -- from us, and from across America -- as a "blame game."

To families still living in shelters, campers, and tents -- looking for loved ones and wondering if they can ever go home -- this is no game. Those are the people the White House needs to answer.

This is a pattern. When the CIA leak investigation into Bush advisor Karl Rove heated up, the press secretary said, "Now is not the time to talk about it." Simple questions from the press about the failed Katrina response now get the same answer: "Now is not the time."

Nonsense. In a government of the people, a president owes answers to the people. We can make that happen -- but we need 50,000 signatures by Wednesday to send Bush the message that America wants an independent investigation of the response to Katrina. Sign now:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/accountability

Thank you,
Tom Hughes
Democracy for America

[leveymg]

1. Done. Here's my message:

It's called Negligent Homicide. Please begin the prosecution of President Bush and his aides for thousands of counts of that and related crimes of malfeasance, deceit and dereliction of duty.

[rodeodance]

2. hope the death count in not in the thousands in the gulf states.

[leveymg]

4. Me too. But, you know it'll be low four figures, at minimum.

[shaniqua6392]

3. Done.