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The perfect complement to this petition is to contact your Senators, insisting that they support - or at the very least, heed - the call to investigate our prevaricating president.
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The newspaper of the Armed Services, The Stars and Stripes, recently featured an article about everybody's favorite MI6 leaks (God bless our limey Brit Deep Throat!)
That's the good news. The better news is that
it minced no words. The newspaper serves the military's community, not its institutions, and this story was a shining example. If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, I'd not want to witness the fury of a mother who lost her child to lies - "woman scorned" to the nth power.
"I envy the parents who support this war, because if I did I'd sleep better," said Dianne Davis Santorello, a Pennsylvania resident whose son was killed in August 2004. "But I don't sleep well. My son died for a lie."
These families are already demanding that Congress investigate. And they need no petition; this is nothing less than human decency would require. Families who have made the greatest sacrifice possible to their country deserve the truth more than any of us.
WASHINGTON -- Several parents of soldiers killed in Iraq visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to ask for congressional hearings on the Downing Street memo,
which one mother called President Bush's "Watergate."
Critics say the document, which contains minutes from a meeting in July 2002 between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and top aides, shows that Bush was determined to go to war with Iraq and ignored evidence that showed the country had no weapons of mass destruction.
...Members of Military Families Speak Out, whose members are relatives of troops killed in Iraq, said Congress must investigate whether the president lied to the country to justify military action.
"This war was based on lies and deception," said Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia, whose son was killed in April 2004 while providing security for investigators searching for WMD. "The only way we can understand how we've come to this disastrous position is to find out what the truth is."
The military has its problems, to be sure. But they do look out for their own (in their own ways) and I am grateful to see The Stars and Stripes hold to that tradition.
The dam has burst, kids.