ACTION ALERT: Write to your local papers about Bush the salesman!!!!

[LynneSin]

I've read the transcripts from Meet the Press and I'm so stinking angry about the lies that Bush keeps telling Americans. If I did something wrong and kept changing my excuses every few days I know folks would be ticked at me and think that I was untrustworthy. But Bush thinks he can do the same thing with his war lies and that Americans will be dumb enough to buy it.

I've just sent a letter off to my local paper about this issue (Wilmington News Journal). I encourage everyone at DU to do the same with their local papers. Let people know that we should not be buying this "salesman's lies".

Here is my letter:

Once again the Bush Administration thinks that Americans aren't that bright. In his 2/8/2004 interview on "Meet the Press", Bush revised his reasoning once again for why we have sacrificed billions of dollars and 500+ American Soldiers in a war that has no real justification except profits for oil companies. His reason was that “Saddam Hussein had the capacity to develop unconventional arms if not the actual weapons.” This reason has changed dramatically since the start of the war in March of 2003 when Americans were lead to believe that Hussein was buying nuclear materials from Niger, had 1000s of WMD hidden all over Iraq and helped back the terrorists of 9/11. Does Bush think we Americans are so unintelligent that we’ll keep buying his new excuses over and over and over again?

I think Hans Blix sums up it up best when he “likened the use of intelligence by the leaders of Britain and the United States to justify war in Iraq to the tactics of insincere salesmen.”

It’s time to take a good honest look at this war. Let’s turn Iraq over to the UN and bring our soldiers home now! Our soldiers are one of our country’s greatest treasures and they deserve much better than to have their lives at risk for a war fought on such flimsy excuses. And like all bad salesmen, we should ‘slam the door on Bush’ when the general election rolls around this November. Our country deserves better!

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you are welcome to use parts of this letter but please do not duplicate. We don't want to use that old republican tactic where the same letter is sent to hundreds of paper (but with different signatures). Here are some links for more information to help put your letter together:

Transcript from Meet the PRess: http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/4179618/

Articles written about the interview:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=3&u=/nm/20040209/pl_nm/iraq_usa_bush_dc

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/09/politics/campaign/09ASSE.html?hp

[resist]

1. Thank you

Truly, thank you. I believe the time has come that we all need to stop bitching with one another and strt taking action. I've spent hours on the puter this morning arguing with wives of the military who took very great umbrage at my suggetion that not supporting Bush was equivalent to not supporting our troops. I think some of them are bginning to come around but their reactions are VERY uick - not to be protective of their sons and spouses but to justify their being in Iraq. If the president is not going to be protective of this nation's children, then we must.

We must stand up and say you cannot use our children's lives frivolously. Thanks for taking an action.