Tell Conyers to keep demanding answers from Bush!

[oxbow]

Here his address: [e-mail]


Here's my letter:

Mr. Conyers,
President Bush is not going to respond to your letter asking him for answers about the Downing street memo. You and the 88 other Representatives who signed that letter need to go stand outside the White House and DEMAND that he come out and respond to it's contents, and you need to make sure there are lots of cameras there! This story broke nearly 2 weeks ago, and the public still knows nothing about it. It's time that we Democrats stopped responding to the news and started making it. I think that 88 congressmen camped out in front of the white house would make for some pretty good tv, and this would be a great way to finally get the story into the mainstream US media.

You already know that if we are going to get any answers, it's not going to be through any committee or panel in government. All of that is controlled by Republicans who have a vested interest in protecting the President from any allegations of wrongdoing. If any answers are going to be forthcoming, it's going to be because the American people demand it. First, though, they need to know that this damning evidence even exists. Everyone just assumes that all questions of blame were already reconciled by those phony investigations into Iraq "intelligence failures."

I know that this is a dramatic and somewhat unorthodox move, but please consider it. In this day of media circuses and whitewashing committees, perhaps we need just such a stunt to get our cause on the radar.

[left is right]

1. Taking it to the streets

I think it has to come to this. The average person hasn't even heard about the memo. My dad, who is the most well-informed non-internet person I know was not surprised by the truth that the memo conveyed--he had been saying this since the first day of the war. But he was shocked that a memo actually existed. And even more shocked that he had to hear about it from me.

[magellan]

2. My Dad was the same

Totally prepared to hear about the memo, totally shocked to hear about it from me. He got the same look he had when I asked him last Fall, "Do you know there's a recount going on in Ohio?" Of course he didn't. Like so many he gets his news from the Corporate Media. He had no idea there was any question about the election.

It's terrible that America has come to this. How long before we're reduced to furtive whispering about things that could get you arrested if the "wrong people" overheard?

I wish the Dems in Congress would fight already. :cry:

[oxbow]

3. Kicked for the lunch crowd