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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-04-06 05:30 PM
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A letter to my Senator: Lies, Lies, Lies
Edited on Mon Dec-04-06 05:34 PM by happydreams
Here is a letter I sent to Senator Patty Murray. I wonder what her reply will be?

I have been researching and writing about political issues for many years. What I see as a fundamental problem with US foreign policy is the web of lies woven into the policies we form. These lies then turn into bigger problems, as lies always do, and then more lies are told. Iraq will go down in history as the biggest foreign policy disaster of all time. It is a disaster because every justification for it was based on lies. At present the lie is we are democratizing Iraq. Senator Murray the US is building 14 permanent military bases in Iraq. Senator John Kerry cited this in a question to George Bush in the 2004 debates. In June of this year funding was renewed for those bases. Could this be the reason why the Iraqis are reacting so violently to the US presence there? I think that it is the main reason. They know they are being lied to about US intentions, which are to colonize Iraq. There are many other lies, big ones, that keep the US from resolving problems. When the facts are considered there is little doubt that both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections were stolen by Bush. Why can we not just acknowledge this, tell the world what the situation is and then allow Bush and his cabal to stand trial for war crimes and pay the consequences. These are just two cases. If we don't begin the process of getting the truth out we will be forever, at great material and human cost, a cost that will eventually be to high to pay, trying to cover up the lies.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-04-06 05:33 PM
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1. It seems the media is loathe to discuss the permanent bases - it never mattered
how many times Kerry brought it up in his speeches, the corpmedia would completely ignore that point.

More Democrats could have pushed it in support of Kerry, but I only recall Clark and Cleland trying to keep it out there for him during their network appearances.
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BeliQueen Donating Member (433 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-04-06 05:38 PM
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2. One suggestion
You should break up your block of text with paragraphs. When people see a huge block of text they tend not to read it, especially on screen.

It's not a short attention span, it's easier on the eyes to flow with the text if it's given out in chunks.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-04-06 05:49 PM
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3. Probably the same reply I get whenever I write her
I've written her a few times about Iraq and have gotten exactly zero responses. At least Cantwell's office was polite enough to give an automatic reply of "Senator Cantwell appreciates blah, blah, blah."
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-04-06 06:41 PM
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4. Gore Vidal showed us this:
"Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human. If we realized the horror and weight of lying, we would see that it is more worthy of the stake than other crimes...Once let the tongue acquire the habit of lying and it is astonishing how impossible it is to make it give it up" - Montaigne
from pg 71 of Gore Vidal's 'Dreaming War, blood for oil...etc'
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