Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:24:33 GMT From: "Barbara Boxer" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert To: "Theresa J/
Steed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Focus on the real issues -- stop the
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Dear Theresa J/,
Urge President Bush to stop the Iraq escalation!
As the new Congress moves quickly to address a set of domestic issues that
cry out for change -- including ethics, prescription drug costs, student loans,
stem cell research, and many others -- the war in Iraq rages on, and President
Bush continues to defy every voice of reason.
The right-wing war room is up and running as strong as ever, and I can tell
you first-hand how vicious it is.
You have probably already seen or read about the point I made to Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice last week -- that neither she nor I had family who would
pay with their lives for this war. I want the Bush Administration to focus on
the military families who are suffering when proposing an escalation in Iraq.
The response of White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and the right-wing
media was immediate. Did they make the case that the Bush Administration
totally understood the agony our military families are going through but that
escalation of the war was still the only course for them? No, of course not.
Instead, they tried to distract the American people from the real issues by
claiming that I was personally attacking Secretary Rice, calling me every name
in the book.
This is the same thing they did a couple years ago when I told Secretary Rice
that her loyalty to the Administration trumped her loyalty to the truth. In a
page from the same old tired playbook, the right-wing media machine then said I
was anti-woman.
There is nothing that the Bush Administration won't do to try and silence
their opponents. There is nothing that they won't do with their right-wing
allies to try and change the subject away from the Iraq war itself to some
made-up side issue.
We can't let this distract us. It is so crucial that we all keep up the
pressure to start bringing out troops home so the Iraqis know that Iraq is
their country, we are not occupiers, and they must defend themselves. It is
also crucial that we keep up the pressure for a political and diplomatic
solution to this travesty -- to bring together all of the countries in the
region with the coalition President Bush says he has, in order to meet and
hammer out the details for bringing about a peaceful Iraq. Instead, the Bush
Administration is only offering a military escalation which means more and more
killing, leaving our sons and daughters in the middle of a full-blown civil war.
Please join me. Please forward an email to President Bush urging him to
listen to the voices of reason and turn away from this unwise escalation.
It's time for Congress to go on record. The American people spoke loud and
clear at the polls last November, and now their elected representatives must
stand up to the Bush Administration's reckless escalation plan.
The Iraq war is hanging like a dark cloud over our nation and the world. I
will not be silenced, and I know you won't either. Let's work as hard as we
can to change course and start bringing our brave men and women home so the
Iraqis can take responsibility for their own country. Please email President
Bush today!
Thank you for always being there for me and for our country.
My best,
Barbara Boxer
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