Posted on 06/28/2005 6:48:22 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
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ON DEFENSIVE, BUSH TO DELIVER "STAY THE COURSE" IRAQ SPEECH AT FT. BRAGG ON TUESDAY, 6/28 • If you can, join anti-war protest in Fayetteville, NC during Bush speech • Build on the anti-war momentum: Send a letter to the editor of your local paper • Keep up the pressure: Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and urge your member of Congress to join the Out of Iraq Caucus --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
They're on the run.
On Tuesday, June 28, President Bush will deliver what is being billed as a major speech on the U.S. war in Iraq, justifying continued U.S. military presence there. The speech is a clear sign that the Bush administration is on the defensive, a reaction to mounting public and Congressional opposition to the war.
Before and during Bush's speech, anti-war activists including Iraq war veterans and military families will hold a vigil in Fayetteville, NC -- home of Ft. Bragg - to protest the continued war. If you are in driving distance of Fayetteville, we urge you to make the trip and join this important protest.
When Bush speaks on Tuesday, we can expect to hear the same thing he and others from his administration have been saying in recent days: their policies are working, things are getting better in Iraq, and no exit strategy is needed.
Bush lied before, and he is lying again. A growing majority of the people of this country know that Bush lied about the reasons to go to war, and all his efforts to portray the U.S. occupation as a success are nothing but empty spin. Even Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that it could take at least 12 more years to stop the insurgency!! With more than 1700 U.S. soldiers and untold tens of thousands of Iraqis already dead after 2 1/2 years of this pointless nightmare, what could 12 more years possibly bring?
The anti-war movement has growing political momentum. Recent polls show that public opposition to the war is solid and growing. Near-daily reports of torture and other abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and other detention facilities have sparked widespread public outrage. The Downing Street memo has exposed and documented the lies of this administration. There is, at long last, some serious movement against the war in Congress: Just two weeks ago, 42 members of Congress formed the Out of Iraq Caucus, and before that, 128 members supported a resolution calling for an exit plan.
Even if you can't join the protest in Fayetteville, you can take action to help build on this political momentum. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper in response to Bush's speech. Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and urge your member of Congress to join the Out of Iraq Caucus - or leave a thank you message, if your representative has already joined.
And spread the word far and wide about the massive anti-war mobilization being planned in Washington, D.C. for the weekend of September 24-26. If we are to bring this illegal and immoral war to an end, we need to mobilize not just the folks who already have taken action against the war, but the vast numbers of normally apolitical people who are sickened by the carnage and want the troops brought home now. An array of new outreach leaflets have just been posted to the United for Peace and Justice website at http://www.unitedforpeace.org/fallmobe - download and copy them today, and start reaching out to folks in your community.
Not a day goes by without reports of senseless death and destruction while our communities are being bankrupted by the billions of dollars pouring into the war and occupation of Iraq. The Bush administration is on the political defensive, and it is time for us to re-double our efforts.
To strengthen the anti-war movement at this critical juncture, United for Peace and Justice needs your financial support. Please make the most generous donation you can today! Donate online, mail a check to the address below, or call us at 212-868-5545 to make a credit card donation by phone.
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God, I hate hippies.
"On the run" from what?
I hope this is just the writer's interpretation, but what absolute idiot would get into such a war without having an exit strategy?
Just reported this to the MIB. he-he-he-he
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We, in fact, do have an exit strategy. We're going to win the war, and then there will be no need for us to be there. Then we go home.
This is like a rent-a-mob booty call!
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So this is where Botox Nancy got her information that the War in Afghanistan in over!
KMA Leslie Kagan.
They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
Current Members of the "Out of Iraq Caucus":
Rep. Neil Abercrombie, Rep. Xavier Becerra, Rep. Corrine Brown, Rep. Julia Carson, Rep. Donna Christensen, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. William Delahunt, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Rep. Sam Farr, Rep. Chaka Fattah, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Rep. Rush Holt, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Shelia Jackson - Lee, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. James McGovern, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Jim Moran, Rep. Grace Napolitano, Rep. Eleanor Holmes-Norton, Rep. John Olver, Rep. Major Owens, Rep. Donald Payne, Rep. Nick Rahall, Rep. Charles Rangel, Rep. Janice Schakowsky, Rep. Bobby Scott, Rep. Jose Serrano, Rep. John Tierney
I'll call the capitol switchboard and denounce these seditious tools.
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