I wrote this letter in response to reading the article below....
I read your article, "Wesley Clark Sketches an Exit Plan for Iraq--Meanwhile, Charles Rangel talks impeachment " with great pride!
To read of Clark, Rangel and Sheehan coming together against the Bush policies in Iraq as a lethal trio gives me great hope. Whether they agree on everything is not as important as the fact that they all agree on working together in changing the present disastrous course to another. Mrs. Sheehan gives us the reason to leave; Wes Clark gives us a way out; and Wonderful Charlie Rangel gives us something to look forward to.
Ironically, these three represent the Military at its highest rank, a 35 year Congressional veteran, and a mother who has lost her son to a trumped up optional war that has cost lives and billions!
If America doesn't take those three seriously, than all is lost!
Respectfully,
XXX XXXXX
Wesley Clark Sketches an Exit Plan for Iraq
Meanwhile, Charles Rangel talks impeachment by Sarah Ferguson
September 23rd, 2005 10:54 PM
But
in calling for an immediate withdrawal, the peace movement can’t duck a central question: Just how do we leave? On Friday,
Sheehan appeared on a Congressional Black Caucus breakfast panel with General Wesley Clark, the former NATO commander and presidential hopeful, who was there to address the issue of whether the U.S. can “win” the war in Iraq.
“We’re involved in a war that we didn’t have to fight. That’s the simple truth,” Clark said. “Now it’s in trouble, deep trouble.
I wish it was just as simple as saying, Mr. President, you made a mistake, get those troops out now." snip
Clark said
the anti-war movement should demand that Bush establish a “regional dialogue with other Arab states, including people we don’t like, like Syria and Iran,” and focus on “changing the minds and cutting off the recruiting” of those now blowing up tanks and buses in Iraq.
Speaking of the expected 100,000 strong anti-war march on Saturday,
Clark told Sheehan and the other military families arrayed in the audience that they should “march with the flag, because this is about the future of America.” snip
...Charles Rangel, the moderator, stepped in: “I’ve been here 35 years, and I know impeachment when I see it,” said the New York congressman.
“If the president knew there were no weapons of mass destruction and knew there was no connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and if the president knew the Iraqis were not involved in the attack on the twin towers and still allowed our nation to believe that we had to invade Iraq for it, then I’m a lawyer and a former federal prosecutor, and these are impeachable offenses,” he said, to a burst of applause from the audience.
Snip
"Right now they’re spending billions of dollars building military bases in Iraq the size of Sacramento," Sheehan continued.
"If there’s one thing we as a peace movment have to agree on, it's that we have to get out of Iraq now, as soon as possible, because these maniacs plan on our children never coming home."
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