Date: Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:07 AM
From: The Pen <democracy@peaceteam.net>
To: tinam462@charter.net
Subject: Now Read The Truth: Lieberman-Kyl DEFANGED Because of YOU
WE THE PEOPLE CUT THE HEART OUT OF THE LIEBERMAN-KYL AMENDMENT
It has taken a couple days for the actual disposition of the
Lieberman-Kyl amendment to leak out, but in FACT, the two most
offensive paragraphs (3 and 4), which we were objecting to so
strenuously as amounting to a declaration of war on Iran, were
REMOVED IN THEIR ENTIRELY prior to the vote. Which means we WON.
Yes, you did it, with your TENS of thousands of emails and phone
calls to Congress this last Monday and Tuesday. We are so proud of
our participants on this one. Claim your win.
What was left was not great, but ultimately it means nothing with the
actual teeth of the amendment extracted, not that that's any excuse
for those who voted yes (or did not vote at all). So the Senate
called some people a terrorist organization. Big deal, it's not
binding anyway, no more than their groundless and hypocritical
condemnation of MoveOn a week ago. And for those who may say this
gives Cheney and Bush an excuse to do anything, this White House
doesn't think it needs an excuse to do anything, that's the whole
POINT of impeachment.
Once again this PROVES that activism works. We beat them back this
time in a major way, folks, and why? Because we actually spoke out,
that's why! We dismissed the voices of defeatism and took action.
Fancy that, participatory democracy works. Are the evil ones going to
give up? Of course not, and that's why we're not going to give up
either. Let's say it together, we're going to keep ON speaking out in
even greater numbers.
There are many dirty secrets in Washington, but the biggest one of
all they are trying to keep may be that when you write and call in
mass numbers, members of Congress tremble, shaking in their socks,
especially in the House where they have to get reelected every two
years. Oh, sure, sometimes they send us their form letter responses
trying to sluff us off, trying to con us into thinking we are not
having an impact. But we know the truth, which is that they work for
us, and we do have the POWER with our personal messages to enforce
that.
WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? WHY, IMPEACHMENT OF COURSE
This week yet another video of Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney surfaced
from the early nineties, again articulating his views as to why
trying to occupy Iraq would be lead to nothing but a disastrous
quagmire. And yet this is the same man who not only lied the country
into doing just that once he seized power himself, but is still the
most aggressive force in the White House pushing for an even more
monumental debacle in Iran.
H. RES 333 ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/hres333.php
This is an NEW action page. We're going to have a new action page on
impeachment EVERY week from now on. That's the plan, we're ALL going
to call for impeachment once a week from now on, and each time
encourage everyone else we now to do the same using the friends
invitation section of the action page.
Recognizing the gravity of the increasingly loud drumbeats for more
war coming from the Vice President's office, this week Dennis
Kucinich, who had already gotten 20 cosponsors for H.Res 333 to
impeach Cheney, said he was seriously considering forcing the House
of Representatives to take up the issue of impeachment by bringing it
as a privileged resolution.
We have a major win in our pocket this week. We have slowed them
down. But we also recognize that the only thing that will stop them
completely is confronting the White House, and Cheney in particular,
with impeachment. Each and every member of the House must be called
to account at this moment in American political history, by the
demands of you, their constituents, whether they will stand up for
the Constitution and stop Dick Cheney's delusional march to Iran . .
. or not.
Already more than 110,000 of your fellow constituents have voted in
the National Cheney Impeachment Poll. If we had a million people
write in one week, impeachment would be the centerpiece on the table
so fast it would make their heads spin. We're going to do it. We're
going to crank up our efforts to a new level this week. And when
Dennis Kucinich DOES introduce his privileged resolution, we're going
to crank it up even more.
THANK DENNIS KUCINICH PERSONALLY FOR HIS LEADERSHIP
Once again, Dennis Kucinich stands out as the leading voice calling
for restoration of our Constitution. Isn't that enough reason to make
whatever donation you can to him, to encourage him to speak out even
stronger on the issues more and more every day? If you have not done
so already, please do so now if you can.
DENNIS KUCINICH CONTRIBUTIONS:
http://www.usalone.com/donations_kucinich.php
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.
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