[Peace-discuss] "Elect Peace in 2004"

[Ricky Baldwin]

How can anyone be against this, as it stands?  I think
the problem is going to be who the hell to vote FOR. 
I'm almost certain we will be divided, and that's a
problem if the goal is simply to "defeat Bush and the
Republicans".

I'm sure Carl and Mort and others will have thoughts
on this.

Ricky

--- "Joseph T. Miller" <jtmiller at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Friends,
> 
> 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
>   April 24th, 2003
> 
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