400,000 Letters to Congress Seek War Evidence Probe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 400,000 letters have been sent to members of the U.S. Congress backing a call for an independent investigation into intelligence used by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq (news - web sites) war, organizers of an online campaign said on Tuesday.

The campaign, being run by the advocacy group Moveon.org (http://www.moveon.org), is trying to pressure lawmakers to back a bill introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, that would create a nonpartisan commission to probe the intelligence.

"People feel like the president is not giving them straight answers and they want to know why the president said what he did in the State of Union address," Eli Pariser, the campaign organizer said in a telephone interview.

The White House has conceded that U.S. intelligence did not fully endorse a statement he made in his January State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to get uranium from Africa.

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