Showdown in the Senate Tues.: Boxer vs. Feinstein, re Condi Rice! [View All]

Do y'all realize what's happening Tues., Wed.? NINE HOURS of Senate debate on Rice--a very long debate which Democrats insisted on.

Feinstein, rep of the warmonger wing of the Party, will be giving friendly intro to Rice, to the full Senate.

Boxer, rep of the antiwar wing, and others including Kerry, will be trying to take Rice to pieces.

Here are two lapdog press articles laying out this unusual contest for the soul of the Democratic Party (really, that's what it is, though they don't put it quite like that):

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050120/D87NRVAG0.html

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050117/pl_afp/usricepolitics_050117223654

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LETTERS NEEDED!

Go to: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x296466

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Here's the sample letter we've prepared for DUers. It's hot! It needs to be blasted to all Senators by fax or email, and to media via email, over the weekend.

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,


We have all the tools for sending, at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x296466