[Peace-discuss] Anti-war movement, real & fake

[C. G. Estabrook]

	*An Invitation to Join the Peace Movement*

To: True Majority, Moveon.org, Open Left, David Sirota, TPM, Campaign
for America's Future, the Center for American Progress, and Daily Kos

The following groups and individuals are working very hard to block a
war supplemental bill in Congress that would fund the continued war and
occupation of Iraq and an escalated war and occupation in Afghanistan:
After Downing Street, American Friends Service Committee, Nick Baumann,
Brave New Films, Jennifer Brunner, Brendan Calling, Cindy Sheehan, Code
Pink, Dday, Declaration of Peace, Democrats.com, Digby, Docudharma,
FireDogLake, Bruce Gagnon, Glenn Greenwald, the Hip Hop Caucus, Howie
Klein, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Just Foreign Policy, The Nation,
Cynthia McKinney, Linda Milazzo, Michael Moore, Military Families Speak
Out, Out of Iraq Blogger Caucus, Patriot Daily, Peace Action,
Progressive Democrats of America, Jason Rosenbaum, Coleen Rowley,
Jonathan Tasini, True Maine Blue, Doug Tudor, United for Peace and
Justice, US Labor Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Voters for Peace,
Joan Wile, Marcy Winograd, World Can't Wait, and the Young Turks.

We could use your help.

We've elected majorities to Congress to get us out of Iraq in 2006 and
2008. But we've allowed Congress to toy with us. 51 Democrats voted
against the current war supplemental when they were sure it would pass.
Two years ago 89 House Democrats signed a statement committing to voting
against any war funding except for a withdrawal. This year 85 have
signed onto a bill requiring an exit strategy for Afghanistan. And 73
belong to something called the Out of Iraq Caucus. And yet we are being
told that the way to "clear the decks" and "move on" to healthcare and
energy is to further fund the wars that elected Democrats claim to
oppose and that we all claim to oppose.

What are our chances of success? They are much better in the long term
if we push hard in the short term. If we can strip unrelated measures
out of war bills, if we can force war bills to be passed primarily by
Republicans, if we can create an anti-war caucus with negotiating power,
if we can change the discourse to include the peace movement we will be
closer to achieving peace. Every day that we delay the current bill is a
victory. Will you help us? Will you send an Email to your list and post
a blog on your site asking your members to phone Congress and ask for No
votes on the war supplemental? Will you be part of a growing peace
movement now, when we might succeed, just as you were when we had no chance?

We need you.

In Solidarity,
David Swanson

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David Swanson is the author of the upcoming book "Daybreak: Undoing the
Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" by Seven Stories
Press.  You can pre-order it for a discount price at
http://tinyurl.com/daybreakbook

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