[Peace] Help us get to 200,000 by tomorrow (fwd)

[patton paul]

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Date: 15 Jan 2003 01:09:21 -0000
From: "Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org" <moveon-help at list.moveon.org>
To: Dr. Paul Patton <ppatton at uiuc.edu>
Subject: Help us get to 200,000 by tomorrow

Dear MoveOn member,

As you know, next Tuesday, in over 500 congressional offices across
the nation, MoveOn members will meet with their representatives or
key staff and encourage them to join our message to President Bush:
"Let the Inspections Work."

In each meeting, we'll be delivering a copy of everyone's comments
and signatures.  We're trying to get to at least 200,000 before the
end of the day Wednesday, when we'll be printing the comment
packages.

Please ask your friends and colleagues to sign the petition at:

   http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar

To make this goal, we need just 1,000 more signatures
from Illinois.  Country-wide, we're already up to 171,000.

The more signers our local delegations represent, the more likely
it is that our national leaders will take their concerns seriously.

Please take a moment to pass the message below along to folks who
share your concern about a war on Iraq and want to hear from you
on this.

Time is running out, but with your help we can reach our goals
and send a powerful message.

Sincerely,

- The MoveOn Team
  Carrie, Eli, Joan, Peter, Randall, Wes and Zack
  January 14th, 2002

P.S. Thanks to everyone who's supported this campaign through
our contribution page at
https://www.moveon.org/donatec4/creditcard.html

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SAMPLE MESSAGE FOR YOUR GOOD FRIENDS
(Your own words are always best)

Please join me in signing an online petition asking President Bush
to let the weapons inspections work, rather than rushing to war.
If we don't act now, we could be at war by the end of the month.

Inspections in Iraq have started.  Most of us breathed a sigh of
relief.  Unfortunately, it's become clear that the ultra-hawks in
the Bush administration -- Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle -- will not
take yes for an answer.  While the rest of the world thinks Iraq
has backed down, these men are pursuing a massive public relations
blitz for war.

With the possibility of a peaceful resolution to this crisis at hand,
we cannot allow a few men to push the world to war.  Send a message
to President Bush and Congress to let the inspections work at:

   http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/

MoveOn.org will compile our messages and present them to the
administration, including Secretary of State Powell, to U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan, and to members of Congress.

The good news is that the ultra-hawks face some serious opposition.
Secretary of State Colin Powell and other members of the Bush
Administration are willing to give diplomacy a chance, and the State
Department's interpretation of the U.N. resolution is a lot more
reasonable than the White House's interpretation.

President Bush has agreed that war should be the very last resort.
Let's hold him and his Administration to those words:

   http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/

Please join me and sign on today.  We must support policy makers who
will oppose these few extremists in the Bush White House who have been
looking for an excuse for war from the very beginning.