Pressure is building for Congress formally to recognize that President Bush lied about Iraq.
You can join the MoveOn.org campaign to Censure Bush here
Sending Censure
Jim Lobe
TomPaine.com
February 11, 2004
The grassroots cyber-movement, MoveOn.org, which claims more than two million U.S. members, has launched a major campaign demanding that Congress formally censure President George W. Bush for lying to it about the threat posed by ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Joined by another group, Win Without War (WWW), MoveOn.org, said it had already collected more than 450,000 signatures on an email-based petition drive in just the past week and will now take out print and television advertising to bring more people into the movement.
The two groups ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post Tuesday that accused Bush of running "a campaign of misinformation, of cherry-picking and distorting intelligence, of hype and hysteria that led America into an unnecessary war."
"There must be consequences when a president misleads the American people, and the Congress, with such disastrous results," said the ad, which featured a photograph of a pensive Bush with the caption, "He knew." "An independent commission can deal with failures at the intelligence agencies. Congress should deal with the failures at the White House."
"Congress devoted considerable attention and, eventually, voted to impeach President [Bill] Clinton for misleading the public about a sexual affair," said Adam Ruben, national field director of MoveOn. "It isn't unreasonable to think that misleading the nation about the necessity of going to war constitutes an abuse of power of much greater significance."
The campaign by MoveOn and WWW, which is expected to be joined by other national anti-war groups in the coming days, comes as the administration, including Bush himself, has become increasingly defensive about both the war and the justifications the administration gave for it.
