Dear XXXXX,
Amazing. We did four days' work in one.
In the first 24 hours of our "20,000 home over the holidays" campaign, over 80,000 people have signed our petition.
If you haven't acted yet, please do so now.
http://www.johnkerry.com/action/20000/ We've pledged to gather 20,000 signatures a day in each of the 20 days leading up to Thanksgiving. That's 400,000 signatures and we're almost a quarter of the way there already.
It shows you how eager the American people are for a plan on Iraq that makes sense.
Let Republican Senators bristle at our demands for a full investigation of pre-war intelligence. Let the Bush administration cower in fear that Karl Rove will be indicted for his role in trying to intimidate those who dared to speak the truth. Let Dick Cheney try to explain away his four-year-long campaign of deception, bullying, and misdirection.
But don't let America's brave armed forces serve another day without a clear, concrete plan for achieving America's goals in Iraq and bringing the majority of our troops home by the end of 2006.
http://www.johnkerry.com/action/20000/ Next week, we'll be turning up the heat on Republican leaders in dramatic fashion. We won't let them hide from the truth any longer. The reality is: George W. Bush doesn't have a plan for Iraq. And misleading rhetoric about "staying as long as it takes" will never add up to a plan.
To undermine the insurgency, we have to simultaneously pursue both a political settlement and the withdrawal of American combat forces linked to specific, responsible benchmarks.
Our call for the withdrawal of 20,000 troops over the holidays is about taking a first critical step. Upon the completion of the December elections, we can bring 20,000 troops home. You can make it happen.
Sign our "20,000 home over the holidays" petition right now:
http://www.johnkerry.com/action/20000/ This critical first step should be part of a specific timetable for transfer of political and security responsibility to Iraqis and realignment of our troop deployment. That timetable must be real and strict. The goal should be to withdraw the bulk of American combat forces by the end of 2006.
We may never get George W. Bush to admit his string of disastrous mistakes in Iraq. That's why, if he fails to act, we'll demand that Congress takes the decision out of his hands.
And, if the Republican Congress fails to call the Bush administration to account, we will use the 2006 elections to take the decision out of their hands.
Sign our "20,000 home over the holidays" petition right now:
http://www.johnkerry.com/action/20000/ Remember, the only way to keep the pressure on is to add 20,000 new signatures to our petition every day until Thanksgiving. If you haven't signed yet, act now. If you have, get someone in your home to do the same.
Sincerely,
John Kerry
P.S. Don't forget to forward this email to someone who can be part of tomorrow's 20,000 signatures.
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