...prepared by David Swanson and the folks at AfterDowningStreet.org.
The letter has already been signed by:
Ann Wright, Career US Diplomat who resigned in protest of the war;
Malachy Kilbride, DC Anti-War Network;
Gene Bruskin, Coconvenor, US Labor Against the War;
David Swanson, Washington Director of Democrats.com, Co-Founder of After Downing Street;
Gael Murphy, Co-Founder of CODE PINK;
Mike Hersh, Chairperson, Montgomery County Progressive Alliance, Maryland State Coordinator, Progressive Democrats of America, Organizer, Democracy for America / Maryland;
Sarah Browning, Coordinator, DC Poets Against the War;
J.E. McNeil, Executive Director of Center on Conscience and War;
Kevin Zeese, Director, Democracy Rising;
Barbara Cummings, peace activist, San Diego, CA;
Jeff Norman, Executive Director, U.S. Tour of Duty;
William Rivers Pitt, Author;
Tim Carpenter, Director, Progressive Democrats of America;
Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of Global Exchange;
Paul Kawika Martin, Organizing and Political Director, Peace Action;
Bill Moyer, Director of Back Bone Campaign;
Joe Libertelli, National Advisory Board Member, Progressive Democrats of America;
Mike Ferner, Co-Chair, Veterans For Peace Impeachment Committee;
John Bonifaz, Co-Founder of After Downing Street, and constitutional attorney;
Cindy Sheehan, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace;
Shay Lohman, peace activist, Washington, D.C.;
Karen Bradley, mom and activist, Washington, D.C.;
Richard Bell, longtime activist, Washington, D.C.;
Ray McGovern, U.S. Army veteran and retired 27-year CIA analyst;
Travis Morales, Organizer for The World Can't Wait;
Jeff Cohen, Author;
Larry Johnson, Former CIA Officer;
Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com;
Eric Hamburg, Producer, "Nixon", the movie;
Brad Friedman, co-founder VelvetRevolution.us, managing editor BradBlog.com;
It can be found here:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/chalabiA snip:
We write to you as members of the 60 to 70 percent of Americans who believe that this war has been (in the words of the polling companies) a "mistake," or (in our own words) a criminal fraud. We resent the role you played in instigating it. We believe you owe an apology.
You owe an apology not to Judith Miller, whose career is ruined but who consciously chose to disgrace herself by working with you. Rather, you owe an apology to the families of the over 100,000 people who have died in this war, including over 2,000 U.S. soldiers.
Your misinformation campaign has been exposed:
ƒÞ "Curveball" was a fraud and a brother of one of your top lieutenants.
ƒÞ The 20 secret WMD sites didn't exist.
You should not only offer an apology, but you should offer to testify, under oath, in a Congressional committee, on the subjects of both pre-war claims and wartime spying.
Just last summer, the U.S. military raided your office in Baghdad after it learned you had passed sensitive intelligence to Iran. At the time, U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R., Neb.) said, "This is a very, very serious charge. There were a number of us who warned this administration about
.... But the fact is, there were some in this administration, some in Congress who were quite taken with him."
...more...
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