We have Sunday/Monday to give Boxer and Kerry a huge boost in opposing liar and warmonger Condoleeza Rice for Secretary of State--and to push other Senators to support them. The Democrats insisted on 9 hours of debate! There will be many great speeches, and possibly even a filibuster...if we push hard. This drama will take place Tues./Wed.
Boxer is critically important on publicizing election reform. We need to support her and enhance her power. An outpouring on the C. Rice nomination would do that. ONLY TWO Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee voted against Rice--Boxer and Kerry! Biden and others voted FOR. Diane Feinstein (CA-Dem) will be giving Rice a friendly intro to the full Senate! (What an abomination!)
Send this letter to all Senators on Sun./Mon. (Democrats first priority--make it personal to your own Senators - re-write as you wish).
Dear Senator ____:
The war in Iraq is by far the worst and most disastrous mistake that the Bush regime has made, and Condoleeeza Rice, whom George Bush has nominated for Secretary of State, has been responsible for conveying the false justifications for this war to the American people and to the Congress.
We need a Secretary of State whose word we can trust, and who can be trusted by other countries. Condoleeza Rice does not meet that job description.
I oppose her appointment as Secretary of State, and I support the efforts of Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry to obtain answers from her on the matter of misleading America into war. I support their votes against her appointment, and I urge you to do the same in the full Senate.
Thousands of Americans have been killed and wounded, over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed and many have been imprisoned and tortured, in this war—a war based on falsehoods, and a war that also holds grave consequences for America's reputation as a just and conservative country for whom the use of a force is a last resort.
The administration is now stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, similar to the one in Vietnam in which over 50,000 US soldiers and over one million Vietnamese were killed—and now the regime is spoiling for war in additional countries.
Nearly 60% of the American people oppose the Bush Regime's war in Iraq. The American people cannot continue to pay for these reckless and bloody policies, and we can no longer tolerate war crimes being committed in our name.
Ms. Rice has also been less than candid about the failures of this administration to protect the U.S. from the 9/11 attack, and supports policies of completely unethical interference in the internal affairs of other countries, such as Haiti and Venezuela.
A regime that holds power on the tenuous grounds of massive vote suppression against minority voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, on the further tenuous grounds of a non-transparent election system that is controlled by partisans of the regime, and that currently has almost 60% of the American people opposing its war policy, would be well advised not to commit further arrogant acts against the consent of the governed, such as nominating for Secretary of State a person whose lies have resulted in countless unnecessary deaths.
Sincerely,
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EASIEST AND QUICKEST WAY (email):
Just go here, and start clicking on the email addresses or web forms, one by one:
(It lists all SENATORS & their EMAIL OR WEBFORM; also DC tel. & snail mail address)
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfmDo a strong subject line, like: "Condoleeza Rice is a liar and warmonger--not a diplomat!"
or "Americans oppose Condoleeza Rice war on Iraq!"
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FAX IF YOU HAVE TIME. Here are all Senate fax nos. in DC:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress-------------
MEDIA BLASTER (very easy to use)
(Do a good subject line, and do a short preface to the "Dear Senator ___" letter, such as: "The Senate will debate the Condoleeza Rice nomination for 9 hours on Tuesday/Wednesday. I strongly oppose this Bush appointment and have sent the following letter to all United States Senators..."
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity2_12.htm------------
For DUer comment on the 1st posting of this sample letter, see:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x296466For Boxer on importance of our support, and how "Letter of the Week" forum got started:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=293412&mesg_id=293412
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