2004 Elections: Democratic Party Contenders

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Action Alert #10
Author: National Organizing Department
First published: 11.07.2003 10:11


IN THIS ISSUE:

CREATE AN INDEPENDENT COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S DISTORTION OF EVIDENCE FOR WAR ON IRAQ.

The Communist Party USA urges your full support for the campaign being launched by MoveOn.org to support a call for an independent investigation into lies that George W. Bush administration told to justify going to war against Iraq.

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I want to challenge the Bush Administration's implicit assumption that we have to give up many of our traditional freedoms in order to be safe from terrorists.

Because it is simply not true.

In fact, in my opinion, it makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion of Iraq as the best way to get at Osama Bin Laden.

In both cases, the Administration has attacked the wrong target.

In both cases they have recklessly put our country in grave and unnecessary danger, while avoiding and neglecting obvious and much more important challenges that would actually help to protect the country.

In both cases, the administration has fostered false impressions and misled the nation with superficial, emotional and manipulative presentations that are not worthy of American Democracy.

In both cases they have exploited public fears for partisan political gain and postured themselves as bold defenders of our country while actually weakening not strengthening America.

In both cases, they have used unprecedented secrecy and deception in order to avoid accountability to the Congress, the Courts, the press and the people.

Indeed, this Administration has turned the fundamental presumption of our democracy on its head. A government of and for the people is supposed to be generally open to public scrutiny by the people -- while the private information of the people themselves should be routinely protected from government intrusion.

Wisconsinites have grown increasingly displeased with President George W. Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, according to the latest Badger Poll.

His "poor" rating has risen to 30 percent, and his combined rating of "fair" to "poor" is 54 percent.

That is a dramatic change from April, at the beginning of the war, when only 10 percent gave him a "poor" rating and his combined rating of "fair" and "poor" was 23 percent.,

At the upper end of the scale, the 40 percent "excellent" rating he received in April for dealing with Iraq dropped to just 14 percent in October, and Bush's overall good-to-excellent approval number plunged from 75 percent to 46 percent.

I want to challenge the Bush Administration's implicit assumption that we have to give up many of our traditional freedoms in order to be safe from terrorists.

Because it is simply not true.

In fact, in my opinion, it makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion of Iraq as the best way to get at Osama Bin Laden.

In both cases, the Administration has attacked the wrong target.

In both cases they have recklessly put our country in grave and unnecessary danger, while avoiding and neglecting obvious and much more important challenges that would actually help to protect the country.

In both cases, the administration has fostered false impressions and misled the nation with superficial, emotional and manipulative presentations that are not worthy of American Democracy.

In both cases they have exploited public fears for partisan political gain and postured themselves as bold defenders of our coIn both cases, they have used unprecedented secrecy and deception in order to avoid accountability to the Congress, the Courts, the press and the people.

Indeed, this Administration has turned the fundamental presumption of our democracy on its head. A government of and for the people is supposed to be generally open to public scrutiny by the people -- while the private information of the people themselves should be routinely protected from government intrusion.untry while actually weakening not strengthening America.

... State Democratic Party Director Kim Warkentin said Bush's re-election will hinge on those numbers.

"He can't win on the war alone," she said. "It really comes back to the economy."