[Peace-discuss] URGENT: Tell your friends about Tuesday's Senate debate on Condoleezza Rice (fwd)

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Boxer's critique of Rice in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
hearing was moderate, even obsequious, given that she had the equivalent
of a Nuremberg defendant before her.  And Boxer has now rather
pusillanimously claimed that she was Rice's "victim."  But in comparison
with the other "liberals" on the committee -- e.g., Kerry (who at least
voted no) and Obama (who didn't) -- she asked some half-way serious
questions.  You can contact our senators as follows:
	Durbin -- phone 202.224.2152; fax 202.228.0400; email
<http://durbin.senate.gov/sitepages/contact.htm>;  
	Obama -- phone 202.224.2854; fax 202.228.5417; email
<http://obama.senate.gov/contact/>.]
 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:59:03 GMT
From: Barbara Boxer <info at pacforachange.com>
Reply-To: notice-reply-dus7xw41ji7jb6 at ga4.org
To: C G  ESTABROOK <cge at shout.net>
Subject: URGENT: Tell your friends about Tuesday's Senate debate on
    Condoleezza Rice

Dear C G ,

Last week, more than 70,000 concerned citizens like you came together to
sign my petition and demand the truth from Condoleezza Rice. Your support
emboldened me during Dr. Rice's confirmation hearings to ask the tough
questions that Americans deserve to have answered. I can't thank you
enough, and America can't thank you enough.

Perhaps even more importantly, the groundswell of support you created
forced the Republican Senate leadership to give us what we wanted -- not a
rubber stamp of Dr. Rice's nomination by voice vote last Thursday before
the Republicans dashed off to Inaugural parties, but nine full hours of
debate on the floor of the United States Senate.

With your support, our voices are being heard -- in the halls of Congress,
in the White House, and across the country. So today I ask for your
support once more:

Help me add thousands more signatures to our petition to hold Condoleezza
Rice accountable. Tell your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues to
sign our petition, so that when I stand up on the Senate floor Tuesday and
Wednesday, I'm speaking with the power of tens of thousands of Americans
behind me.

Tell-a-friend: http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/forward/dus7xw41ji7jb6
Sign the petition: http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/dus7xw41ji7jb6

White House Chief of Staff Andy Card has attacked me as "small" for
seeking the truth. But I won't allow this Administration to try to sweep
the facts about our failures in Iraq and the war on terrorism under the
rug. I'm taking the "advice and consent" role, granted to the Senate in
the U.S. Constitution, seriously.

During the full Senate debate over Condoleezza Rice's nomination tomorrow,
I intend to take the floor, joined by many other of my Democratic
colleagues, to express my frustration about Dr. Rice's lack of candor
during the confirmation hearings -- her unwillingness to level with the
American people about the misleading statements she made about aluminum
tubes, mushroom clouds, and connections between Saddam Hussein and Al
Qaeda to try to justify the war in Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice refused to come clean about the actual number of trained
Iraqi forces on the ground. And perhaps even more disturbingly, she
refused to tell us why she personally intervened to kill an anti-torture
provision in a recent intelligence bill.

I refuse to let these misstatements, misjudgments, and poor decisions go
unanswered. So I ask you one last time, before the Senate debate Tuesday
and final vote on Wednesday, to tell everyone you know about our petition.
Help me find thousands more Americans who are willing to sign our petition
and stand with us.

Tell-a-friend: http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/forward/dus7xw41ji7jb6
Sign the petition: http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/dus7xw41ji7jb6

I can't thank you enough for everything you've done over this past week.
Now, in these final 48 hours before the vote on Dr. Rice's nomination, I
ask for your help once more. Join me as we continue to fight for what's
right -- because the process of democracy is as important as the outcome.

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer U.S. Senator

P.S. After forwarding our petition to everyone you know, be sure to call
or email your Senators and encourage them to join us in Tuesday's debate.
Americans deserve a full and open debate about Dr. Rice's confirmation, as
well as the important issues like Iraq, the war on terrorism, and the use
of torture that underlie her nomination.

http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/forward/dus7xw41ji7jb6

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