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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 05:55 PM
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Don't let DSM die! Urge your Senators to sign John Kerry's letter now!
Now is not the time to let up our pressure. Hold their feet to the fire! Email your Senators, particularly those of you with Senators on the Intelligence Committee. The only Senator who has signed is Corzine.

We must not let the Downing Street Memos die now!

http://intelligence.senate.gov/members.htm

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From Salon War Room re Kerry's letter: "Where Are the Other Democrats?"

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/print.html?blog=

Where are the other Democrats?

For those who have been itching for someone -- the national media, the White House, Congress, anybody -- to take the Downing Street memo seriously, the news today is mostly good: Even if the Republicans will never let it happen, John Kerry and nine other Senate Democrats have actually asked for an investigation that will include the revelations set forth in the Downing Street memo.

And yet -- where are the rest of the Senate Democrats? There are 44 Democrats in the Senate, and Kerry circulated a draft of his letter to the whole lot of them two weeks ago. In the end, he was able to persuade just nine of his colleagues to sign on: Jon Corzine, Tim Johnson, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Jeff Bingaman and Dick Durbin.

Where are you, Harry Reid? Any reason you didn't sign, Sen. Clinton? And while we wouldn't expect to see a signature from someone like Joe Lieberman on this letter, why don't we see your name there, Sen. Obama?

It would be one thing, we suppose, if Kerry's letter were outrageous somehow -- say, if it impugned the patriotism of millions of Americans or suggested their real "motives" were to put U.S. troops in mortal danger. But Kerry's letter isn't like that. It simply quotes passages from the Downing Street memo and highlights the "troubling questions" that they raise.

Is it that you don't think those questions are worth answers, Joe Biden? Or does the experience of Dick Durbin -- who did, after all, sign the Kerry letter -- have you too scared to raise them?

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Link to email your Senators and ask them to sign Senator Kerry's letter urging the Senate Intelligence Committee to complete Phase II of their investigation--how the administration used the intelligence they received in the run up to the Iraq War--which chairmain Pat Roberts agreed to in February, 2002.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 05:59 PM
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1. We need more Senators on the Intel Committee to sign on.
Just 4 more will force an official investigation.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 08:49 AM
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2. Senators return today. Now is the time to contact them. Don't let DSM die!
Short and sweet email:

I am asking you to sign Senator Kerry's letter urging the Senate Intelligence Committee to complete Phase II of their investigation--how the administration used the intelligence they received in the run up to the Iraq War--which chairman Pat Roberts agreed to in February, 2002. Our soldiers, tasked to carry out this war, deserve no less.

(You might also thank them for their service to their particular state and the nation.)
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pgh_dem Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 12:00 PM
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6. So no other sens have signed Kerry's letter since he released it?
How embarrassing...

Well, it's not like Specter or Santorum have an ounce of integrity, or even check email of non-fund-raising constituents...so good luck everyone else.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 12:58 PM
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8. Call and email Dem senators, even if they aren't yours.
Especially those on the Intel committee like Wyden and Feinstein and Mikulski.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 01:01 PM
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9. Original post mentioned the nine Senators who have signed JK's letter.
Jon Corzine, Tim Johnson, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Jeff Bingaman and Dick Durbin.

Only Corzine serves on the Intelligence Committee.
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pgh_dem Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 01:06 PM
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12. Right...those Sens names were on it from the get-go...
Just saying it is embarrassing that he can't get anyone else on there. It's a pretty convincing case for * having deliberately misled Congress about the evidence presented for attacking iraq.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:04 PM
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13. Actually, we don't know if there are any additional Senators since this
Salon article.
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hopein08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 11:17 AM
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3. I would if I could, or I thought it would do some good...
Santorum & Specter...nuff said.
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splat@14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 01:01 PM
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10. I got Cornyn & Hutchinson but they are getting a letter anyway!
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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 11:27 AM
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4. The crafty Democrats are going to let the corporate media
carry the burden on this one. They're saving their fire for, for, for, something, something big, really big, but I forget what it is.
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jjstopes Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 11:29 AM
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5. 10 feet under
Sadly its not just dead, its 10 feet under. With Hurricans, SCOTUS, and now the Rove leak -- The DMS is in the ground rotting.

I really think this Rove leak issue is a cover for the DSM - the media and even this board has taken the bait... DSM is almost never talked about on this board anymore, its all ROVE ROVE ROVE and thats exactly what he wants.





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second edition Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 12:04 PM
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7. I e-mailed mine and sent ones to the committees members.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 01:03 PM
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11. Thank you. America deserves to know how Dubya misled us to Iraq War.
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cestpaspossible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:38 PM
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14. I called Senator Baucus about this but I'll call again.
Edited on Mon Jul-11-05 03:39 PM by cestpaspossible
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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 03:44 PM
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15. Mine Are Nelson & Martinez!!
What shall I do??

Guess I could write the others!
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