I thought you'd like to see this. MoveOn.org is starting to get a campaign organized to defeat Bush and the Republicans in 2004. The Republicans are already well under way in their re-election effort, we need to get started too.
Read their email below and consider signing on to the campaign.
To sign up, click here:
http://www.moveon.org/pac/newpres/
MoveOn will keep you updated when opportunities for action come up.
Dear MoveOn Member,
The war in Iraq is over; the U.S. occupation of Iraq has now begun. In an unnecessary war, victory is never sweet: American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, and Iraqi soldiers lost their lives in a conflict that never should have happened. That's not victory, that's tragedy.
The hawks in the Bush Administration see this as a vindication of their belligerent world view. Never mind that we haven't found any weapons of mass destruction; never mind that Iraqi democracy (or even security) is nowhere in sight. The hotter heads have prevailed: pre- emptive unilateralism is now the official policy of the U.S.. Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle are now thinking even bigger about the "projection of American power." In the chilling words of a senior official close to the Bush administration, "Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran."
Folks, we just have to stop this madness, and there's really only one way to do that: We need to throw these bums out. The good news is that over the last few months, we've built a base that just may be large enough to succeed. MoveOn's total membership is now over 1.3 million. We've taken out ads, written letters, delivered mountains of petition signatures, and taken action in hundreds of cities. And now we need to turn our attention toward one goal: regime change in the USA, the best way to repudiate Bush's policy of war.
Are you in? If you're willing to help show Bush the door in 2004, just click below. We'll count you among the participants in this next phase of the peace movement.
http://www.moveon.org/pac/newpres
We'll throw out Bush and the Republicans using every means available: by registering a wave of new voters, by organizing to make sure they get to the polls on election day, by raising enough money to compete with the President's mountain of special interest money, and by volunteering for political campaigns. We'll make it easy for you to play a part.
President Bush believes he doesn't have to listen to the American public -- which, even during war, has overwhelmingly been skeptical or strongly resistant to the idea of an American empire. He has decided that his faith in the military takes precedence over his faith in democracy. The election in 2004 is our chance to take our democracy back.
Polls show overwhelmingly that American's do not trust President Bush to revive the failing economy. They're just as concerned with the Administration's assault on civil rights, civil liberties and the environment. Last week in New Orleans, Presidential Advisor Karl Rove said that this will be a "close, competitive" race. If all of us get involved, it won't just be tight. We'll win.
And that will go down in history. It will demonstrate that we mean what we say -- that we have the passion and the commitment to see our approach to foreign policy through. It will demonstrate that politicians who seek to curry favor through belligerence face political consequences, and that those who advocate a reasonable, multilateral foreign policy will be rewarded. And it will set the stage for an American policy that leads the world into a cooperative and safe future.
Let's elect a new President in 2004, and put an end to the politics of unnecessary war.
Sincerely,
Carrie, Eli, Joan, Peter, Wes, and Zack The MoveOn Team
IS IT ME OR ARE THEY GETTING MORE DESPERATE AS TIME GOES ON? I need help from FReepers in pointing out any RED ties of MoveOn.org so I can further iritate my liberal colleague.... any help out there? Thanks.
They are partisan wonks (and socialists to boot).
Are they a 501c3 organization? They could lose their tax-free status for seeking the defeat of President Bush in 2004. 501c3 charities can no more push for the election of defeat of a specific candidate than a church could.
Great way to get in a madeup quote. Hey, we can do that too...
In the chilling words of a senior official close to MoveOn.org, "Stalin was by far the greatest man of the 20th Century. Hitler was OK, but he didn't kill enough people."
This sentence is a perfect example of the way liberals must communicate to support their agendas. It's so complex as to almost render itself without meaning.
I mean, stop and think for a minute: how many directions you can take each part of that snippet?
It's only through this type of obfuscatory communication that liberals are able to hide the lack of moral or ethical foundation for many of their positions on issues: there's a feeling behind that phrase, but it's almost impossible to analyze that phrase and reach a moral semi-absolute conclusion. (I only say "semi-absolute" because, I don't believe humans can achieve or fully understand a morally absolute state. We are fallible.)
While being conservative doesn't make people wise; I've never met a leftist in whom I thought wisdom resided.
