More than 59,000 view Conyers' letter on Downing Street memo over weekend

[BigBearJohn]

Congressman John Conyers' (D-MI) letter questioning President Bush about secret Iraq war plans based on minutes of a high-level British meeting held in 2002 saw heavy traffic over the holiday weekend since its announcement Friday afternoon, RAW STORY has learned.

The congressman's office said they were unprepared for the volume of signers and haven't been able to get firm numbers on signatures as yet, but that the signature page saw 59,000 unique visitors.

"The overwhelming response we received over the Memorial Day weekend from the Internet community to our Downing Street Letter to the President shows how many Americans want to get to the bottom of this huge and growing scandal," Conyers told RAW STORY. "I am hopeful that we can not only reach, but exceed our goal of 100,000 individuals asking the president to explain his conduct in this matter."

The 'memo,' official minutes of a 2002 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, members of British intelligence MI-6 and various members of the Bush administration, noted that MI-6 director Richard Dearlove said, “Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/59000_conyers_downing_street_letter_531

[jackstraw45]

1. 59k down, 48,941,000 to go...

We have a LOT of work to do....

Keep sending this around!

[davekriss]

6. That's 59K unique visitors...

...not 59K signatures. My guess is at best half of the visitors signed (more likely 10% to 20%), which means WE HAVE A LOT MORE TO DO!!

I signed as soon as it appeared here at DU (I think Saturday). I emailed my list. Each of you consider doing the same.

[intheflow]

17. I was gone all weekend,

so just saw this today. I'll bet a whole lot more people sign this next week. I hear Randi Rhodes is pushing it, that ought to get some response. Be nice if all the AA people pushed it.

[RAF]

2. 59,000 view Conyers' letter on Downing Street memo

Congressman John Conyers' (D-MI) letter questioning President Bush about secret Iraq war plans based on minutes of a high-level British meeting held in 2002 saw heavy traffic over the holiday weekend since its announcement Friday afternoon, RAW STORY has learned.

The congressman's office said they were unprepared for the volume of signers and haven't been able to get firm numbers on signatures as yet, but that the signature page saw 59,000 unique visitors.

"The overwhelming response we received over the Memorial Day weekend from the Internet community to our Downing Street Letter to the President shows how many Americans want to get to the bottom of this huge and growing scandal," Conyers told RAW STORY. "I am hopeful that we can not only reach, but exceed our goal of 100,000 individuals asking the president to explain his conduct in this matter."

The 'memo,' official minutes of a 2002 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, members of British intelligence MI-6 and various members of the Bush administration, noted that MI-6 director Richard Dearlove said, “Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/59000_conyers_downing_street_letter_531


Get this out to everyone you know, 100,000 signatures is the goal.

[BigBearJohn]

3. We need to get Randi Rhodes to put this out on Air America

[ralps]

9. This afternoon Randi said that over 50,000 people have signed the

letter. YAY!!!!!!!
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[tridim]

4. I wonder if some people hesitate signing because

you have to provide your name, address and email address? I admit that I spent a few seconds with my mouse hovering over 'submit' before I clicked it. I trust Conyers, but will this list will be put into the public record with our names and addresses visible?

[BigBearJohn]

5. I'm sure of it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I've done enough that I am sure they will come one day

if thigs continue going this way... so one more thign to add to the file.

;-)

[davekriss]

8. There comes a time when you have to make a stand

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

(I acknowledge that you did hit "submit"; I speak to the fence straddlers...)

[Rainscents]

10. Randi Rhodes told all her listen to sign the letter and if you don't have

computer at home, go to libuary and use their computer and go to AAR web and sign it there!

My feeling is, Conyers will have everything he wants and by the time Friday gets here... Remember, we had Holiday weekend and lot of people were gone away from their computer.

[YvonneCa]

22. That is Beautiful...

...I've read it before; thank you for posting it! (By the way, I hovered before I signed, too.:7 )

[confuddled]

12. No doubt.

One poster proudly announced having cleverly(?) faked all of his identifying information. That's no help. So when they think they have 100,000 sigs, they may have far fewer when the sigs are validated, making Conyers look foolish and supporters look cowardly/deceitful. Better to not even sign it if you don't have the courage of your convictions.

[LizW]

13. Me too

But then I remembered that they can already get a list of my donations and my magazine subscriptions and book purchases. So, what the heck...

I clicked submit, and I'm happy I did.

:D

[donkeyotay]

14. Conyers isn't hiding from them

I know, I hesitated too.

To those who don't want to be public by signing this, think about this:

At Conyers's media hearing, Rep. McDermott (sp?) of Washington was responding to a panelist by saying that if we wanted our representatives to be the generals leading this battle, we had to support them. He was speaking in terms of the alternative media giving them a forum since the corporate media had frozen him and others out, but it applies to all of us. How can we expect our Representatives to go to bat for us if we won't even take a little of the risks ourselves?

[geckosfeet]

19. You can't,,, you have to have a voice and a face. If they ask you

to carry a rifle then you carry a rifle. I think signing a letter is the least I can do to support my country.

[darkism]

18. You ONLY need to provide a name.

It doesn't say so on the page, but the other fields are NOT required.

Spread the word!

[llmart]

25. If you have principles you must put yourself on the line for them......

and stop being paralyzed by "ooohhh, I may get my name on a list or something." This is what courage is all about. The Repugs want you to be intimidated.

Nobody intimidates me. They can put my face, name and anything else they want on a watch list or whatever. I have the courage of my convictions.

[tridim]

28. My hesitation really wasn't about getting on a "list"

I'm positive that I'm already on the BushCo list. I was more worried about crazy Freeper types having my name and address. Then I started thinking about it, and I'm now proud that my name is on the document and will be recorded as part of the history of the downfall of BushCo.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

31. The way I looked at it was

My rep knows how I feel, my senators know how I feel. Why not make sure the one causing all these feelings knows, too?

It's just one more thing, and I was asked to do this by a man I admire. Who would I if I didn't respond?

[donkeyotay]

11. Conyers has shown such leadership on many issues

He is working for the American people, and he deserves our support.

http://www.johnconyers.com/

Done. Signed and donated.

Pass it on!

[Paul Dlugokencky]

15. Hear, Hear!

signed and passing it on...



http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

[geckosfeet]

16. I signed Conyers' letter,, then I copied the file,,, tweaked the language

a bit,,, printed it,,,, signed it and mailed to the "Honorable" shrub himself.

I guess when you send mail to shrub you have to call him "The Honorable ......... ". That was the hardest part.

[Rainscents]

20. LOL... "The Honorable ......... ". That was the hardest part.

I would had said... The Horrible.

[Roland99]

21. Awesome!! Remember this? Blair: I have secret proof of weapons

Blair: I have secret proof of weapons

Gaby Hinsliff, Nick Paton Walsh in St Petersburg and Peter Beaumont in London
Sunday June 1, 2003
The Observer

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,968164,00.html

[donkeyotay]

26. I remember waiting for the proof on Afghanistan

War was a done-deal then - we were gonna bomb somebody. But boosh showed the "evidence" to blair, and that was the new standard of indicting whoever they want behind closed doors.

The First Dodgy Dossier

Three years ago, on 4 October 2001, Tony Blair presented a dossier to the House of Commons to justify war on Afghanistan. The dossier concluded (although little evidence was available) that, 'The attacks of the 11 September 2001 were planned and carried out by Al Qaida, an organisation whose head is Usama Bin Laden... The attack could not have occurred without the alliance between the Taleban and Usama Bin Laden, which allowed Bin Laden to operate freely in Afghanistan, promoting, planning and executing terrorist activity.'

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2004-10/13rai.cfm


And here's a good refresher on that faulty intelligence:

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21945/

[Roland99]

27. Thanks!

[0007]

23. Two or three thousand more from Midland Texas today.

n/t

[Apian]

24. AfterDowningStreet -- MINUTES not "memo"

AfterDowningStreet.org is calling them minutes, not memo...

"THE DOWNING STREET MINUTES

If any one looked objectively they would know.

If anyone used a dictionary they would know.

If anyone asked a secretary they would know.

If anyone studied judiciously they would know.

A memo is an inter-office communication.

Minutes are the real-time record of a meeting, whose veracity is checked by all members attending, and are given to all members attending, and must be kept by all attending. Minutes are the true and accurate testimony of what transpired. If a conspiracy to commit a crime happened during a meeting, and those minutes were made public, and the criminals were government ministers, and the crime was an illegal war -- there SHOULD BE HELL TO PAY."

see: The Downing Street Minutes -- TAKING IT TO COURT http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/31/65224/7692]

[newyawker99]

33. Hi Apian!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Zorra]

29. ^

[vanboggie]

30. Repeating what I asked on the locked thread

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but can someone explain to me why the John Conyers site is running on two different domains? I've become the suspicious sort in the past 5 years or so. There is the legitimate johnconyers.com, a domain registered in his name in Virginia.

This petition link is also being passed around as being located at johnconyers.campaignoffice.com.

Campaignoffice.com is registered through Godaddy.com by:
CAMPAIGNOFFICE.COM
Registrant:
Avenet LLC
1380 Energy Lane
Suite #206
St Paul, Minnesota 55108
United States

Why would there be two identical Conyers sites out there on different domains? I always expect shenanigans now.

[vanboggie]

34. Called Conyers' office

To find out if the campaignoffice.com web site is legit. I was told that they are not allowed to comment on that because of House rules.

[Cookie wookie]

35. Does anyone know what that means?

That's the site where I donated to Conyers--at least I hope I did.

[Mnemosyne]

32. kick it

:kick: