It's Time for Impeachment
Dear Lawrence,
Call your Rep. today
to support impeachment for Vice President Cheney.
202-224-3121
We've reached the impeachment moment for Vice President Dick Cheney. Representative John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, says that if just 3 more Representatives come out in support of impeaching the Vice President that he'll begin the impeachment proceedings.
And today, July 23rd, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, and others will lead a march to Chairman Conyers' office and not leave until he agrees to begin impeachment proceedings. So take two minutes today and phone your Rep. at 202-224-3121 and ask them to immediately call Conyers' office to express their support for impeachment. Who knows, your Congress Member might be one of the three needed, not just to keep impeachment activists out of jail, but to keep this nation from devolving into dictatorship.
When: Today, July 23rd.
What: Call your Rep. and tell them to express their support for impeachment of Vice President Cheney to House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers.
How: Call the Capitol Hill switchboard and 202-224-3121 and ask for your Representative's office.
After you've made the call be sure to let us know by clicking here. Almost 50,000 TrueMajority members have signed the petition in support of moving forward with impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney. Together we can keep the pressure on Congress to do what needs to be done.
Your friend,
Ben Kroetz
TrueMajority Field Director
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This is the e mail that I quicky responded to yesterday by making the telephone call. If you are as tired of the arrogance and deceit of our present administration, it is very important that you do what you can by responding to every chance you are given to speak out!
Friends tell me there is nothing that the average citizen can do. I say BULLFEATHERS! I left a message on Speaker Pelosi's machine yesterday. They need to know how feed up you are if anything is to be changed and we are to regain control of our own destiny as a Democracy.
I again want to refer to "The Good War" by Studs Terkel. In his Pulitzer Ptize winnning oral history of World War II, he interviews retired Admiral Gene Larocque, who became the Director of the the Center for Defense Information.
Larocque said: " We keep an eye on Pentagon spending. We're a group of retired military officers, trying to hold down the growing influence of the military and industry so that citizens can have a bigger say."
Larocque says our military runs our foreign policy. The Sate Department simply goes around and tidies up the messes the miitary makes. The State Department has become the lackey of the Pentagon.
Befoe WWII this never happened. You had a War Department, you had a Navy department. Only if there was a war did they step up front. The ultimate control was civilian.
Since WWII we began to use miitary force to get what we wanted in the world. That's what the military is all about. Not long ago the Pentagon proudly announced that the U.S. had used military force 215 times to achieve it international goals since WWII. The Pentagon likes that: military force to carry out national will.
Larocque goes on to say: "I was in Vietnam. I saw the senseless waste of human beings. I saw this bunch of marines come off this air conditioned ship. Nothing was too good for our soldiers and marines. We send them ashore as gung ho nineteen year old husky, good-looking kids and bring 'em back in black rubber body bags. There are a few pieces left over, some entrails and limbs that don't fit n the bags. You take a fire hose and you hose down the deck and push that stuff over the side."
-- "Russia wants to be accepted as a world power and perhaps spread their hegemony around the world. I think we have to compete with communism wherever it appears. our mistake is trying to stem it with guns. It alienates the very people we are trying to win over. The Russians really have influence only in the buffer areas around their country. They've been a flop in other contries.
Yet the Russians influence just about everyting we do.
WWII has warped our view of how we look at things today. We see things in terms of that war, which in a sense was a good war. But the twisted memory of it encourages the men of my generation to be willing, almost eager, to use military force anywhere in the world."
-- "For about 20 years after the war, I couldn't look at any film on WWII. It brought back memories that I didn't want to keep around. I hated to see how they glorified war. In all those films, people get blown up with their clothes and fall gracefully to the ground. You don't see anybody being blown apart. You don't see arms and legs and mutilated bodies. You see only an antiseptic, clean, neat way to die gloriously. I hate it when they say, "He gave his life for his country." Nobody gives their life for anything.. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
I went to church in Champaign, Illinois about three weeks ago. there's a plaque in front of the altar: In honor of the men who died, were wounded, and served in World war II. the left-hand side says: "For God. the right-hand says: For Country".
We've made war a religious act. somewhere in the Bible it says, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God those that are God's. What happened to that?"
We are in deep trouble because we have allowed the military/industrial complex to take over this country and Cheney and his Halliburton are making huge amounts of money off the suffering of our misled youth who return from the battlefields of Iraq missing arms and legs and then are not even given decent treatment by a president who dodged his duty as a pilot in Vietnam and by a vice president who when asked why he didn't serve had the audacity to say that he was too busy doing more important things.
Chicken hawks? How about chicken-shit??
The time has come for all of us to really put pressure on this do nothing congress to get it in gear and save the union and return this country to the people.
If you sit idly by, you are no better than the average German of the late 30's, who turned a blind eye to what was happening. Now more than ever, it is most important tht each of us becomes involved.
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