[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Appoint a Special Prosecutor to Investigate the Bush Administration

[Jay Mittenthal]

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>Voice4Change
>Changing Hearts and Minds
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>June 02, 2003
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>Dear mitten at life.uiuc.edu,
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>Today is a busy day at Voice4Change. We have updated our Regime Change
>Action Kit. Adding a handout on the environment and the Patriot Act and
>making the graphic friendlier for printing. We have also added a link to
>download acrobat reader; it is needed to download the action kit.
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>To download the action kit go to :
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>In response to our readers requests we will now be sending a weekly
>newsletter on Monday
On Wednesday and Friday we will send action alerts,
>just a short message with a link for you take action. In the past week we
>generated over 20,000 e-mails from out Political Action Center, thank you
>for participating.
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>We are also launching a campaign for the appointment of a Special
>Prosecutor. More information below

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>Re-Convene the Office of the Independent Council!
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>Did George Bush purposely lie to us during the State of the Union? Did the
>Administration mislead Congress? Are Intelligence Officers being forced to
>file cooked up reports to support the policies of the Bush Administration?
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>The above questions seem much more important that whether or not Bill
>Clinton had relations with Monica Lewinsky. We spent tens of millions of
>dollars to find out if Bill Clinton lied about a personal matter that only
>affected his family. George Bush’s lies have affected thousands of families.
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>Take Action! Send a Message to Congress:
>http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030602~v4c.asp
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>Kilroy's Still Here
>by Sean Penn
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>Saturday 31 May 2003
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>In early October of 2002 -- when the radio sputtered and whined with
>accusations by the Bush Administration declaring a direct link between the
>terrorist activity of Al Qaeda and the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein; I
>was sitting beside my 11-year old daughter in a car. It continued, with
>charges that Hussein's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in
>violation of U.N. resolutions.
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>"It's a sunny afternoon in Northern California," the weatherman
>interrupted, "puffy white clouds resting upon a beautiful blue sky." We sat
>in the car eating french fries in the parking lot of our local burger
>joint. President George W. Bush had just rebuffed the United Nations' push
>to re-introduce weapons inspection teams into an Iraq where even a
>deservedly humiliated Saddam Hussein had expressed willingness to accept
>them. Tightening in my gut, on this otherwise fab day, were troubling
>questions about our nation's understanding of this pending conflict. Its
>most accessible information sources were the corporately sponsored and
>largely conservative media outlets. Indeed, in my gut, were my own
>troubling questions, not only about our Administration's unilateral
>military posturing, but also, what effect U.S. decisions today might have
>on my children's tomorrow.
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>For the rest of the story:
>http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030602~to.asp
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>Philadelphia City Council Overwhelmingly Passes Resolution Against USA
>PATRIOT ACT
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>Thursday, May 29th (Philadelphia) By a vote of 13-3, Philadelphia City
>Council joined 115 other local and state governments around the country to
>call for the repeal of the USA Patriot Act. Introduced by Councilman Angel
>Ortiz, the resolution called for the Philadelphia Congressional Delegation
>to vigilantly monitor the implementation of the USA Patriot Act and to
>actively work to repeal the Act.  Citing the long struggle for civil
>liberties in the United States, several council members spoke out in favor
>of the resolution. None spoke in opposition.
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>"The real irony of the Patriot Act is that it's just plain unpatriotic,"
>says Ortiz. "The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence grant
>every American unalienable rights, and we've allowed the Patriot Act to
>erode those rights without question. And the worst of it is, if you dare to
>question the Patriot Act you're immediately labeled unpatriotic. What could
>be more patriotic than standing up for the rights of citizens and
>taxpayers? And what could be more unpatriotic than to happily watch those
>rights trampled upon?"
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>For the rest of the story:
>http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030602~aclu.asp
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>Iraq War Critics Gather To Continue Their Fight
>Bush Policies Targeted at Crowded Teach-In
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>By Henri E. Cauvin
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Sunday, June 1, 2003; Page C03
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>One after the other, teenagers in jeans and sneakers, retirees in slacks
>and shined shoes, denounced the war in Iraq yesterday and said it was not
>over.
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>The crowd overflowed the pews and packed the aisles at the National City
>Christian Church on Thomas Circle, saying the war is a long way from
>ending. Their own battle against what they called imperialistic U.S.
>intentions is just beginning, participants said
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>For the rest of the story:
>http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030602~ufp.asp
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>U.S. Insiders Say Iraq Intel Deliberately Skewed
>By Jim Wolf
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>This team, self-mockingly called the Cabal, "cherry-picked the intelligence
>stream" in a bid to portray Iraq as an imminent threat, said Patrick Lang,
>a former head of worldwide human intelligence gathering for the Defense
>Intelligence Agency, which coordinates military intelligence.
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>The DIA was "exploited and abused and bypassed in the process of making the
>case for war in Iraq based on the presence of WMD," or weapons of mass
>destruction, he added in a phone interview. He said the CIA had "no guts at
>all" to resist the allegedly deliberate skewing of intelligence by a
>Pentagon that he said was now dominating U.S. foreign policy.
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>For the rest of the story:
>http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030602~clg.asp
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