Letter to Wall Street Journal
Jun. 30th, 2005 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusMoveOn is having a real impact.
Last week they delivered 600,000 pages from over a million members protesting the attempt to slash PBS and NPR funding. The Republicans backed off.
They supported Congressman John Conyers' confrontation with the White House about the Downing Street Memo.
Now they're pushing to keep Bush from changing the subject about the quagmire in Iraq to "terrorism" and the now over-used "Remember the Alamo! Er, September 11th, I mean."
The internet community is having an impact. The Republicans are starting to mention MoveOn by name.
My letter to the Wall Street Journal:
"It is past time for an exit strategy from Iraq. Lt. Col. Kwaitkowski (USAF retired) in Military Week called Iraq, "an ill-planned war, a deadly occupation and no exit strategy." An exit strategy is a definition of victory. Without it, we have no goal.
This is a brutal war. It is far worse than most realize. This war is being fought on the ground, one soldier at a time. This is why we have 12,000 wounded in 27 months of fighting, not huge battles with many dead. That is over 400 soldiers maimed per month, most during the occupation. Military recruitment is down 45% for good reason. Word has gone out: You don't come home in a body bag, you come home like an IKEA bookcase -- some assembly required.
We should have had a goal, a clear exit strategy, before we even began. It's time we set one."
Want to defeat people like Rick Santorum? Step up to the plate. The letters, the petitions, the ad campaigns... they're working.
ETA: Ooo. MoveOn's part of the very effective coalition including the AFL-CIO, the Campaign for America's Future, AFSCME and USAction that blocked changes to Social Security.
Last week they delivered 600,000 pages from over a million members protesting the attempt to slash PBS and NPR funding. The Republicans backed off.
They supported Congressman John Conyers' confrontation with the White House about the Downing Street Memo.
Now they're pushing to keep Bush from changing the subject about the quagmire in Iraq to "terrorism" and the now over-used "Remember the Alamo! Er, September 11th, I mean."
The internet community is having an impact. The Republicans are starting to mention MoveOn by name.
My letter to the Wall Street Journal:
"It is past time for an exit strategy from Iraq. Lt. Col. Kwaitkowski (USAF retired) in Military Week called Iraq, "an ill-planned war, a deadly occupation and no exit strategy." An exit strategy is a definition of victory. Without it, we have no goal.
This is a brutal war. It is far worse than most realize. This war is being fought on the ground, one soldier at a time. This is why we have 12,000 wounded in 27 months of fighting, not huge battles with many dead. That is over 400 soldiers maimed per month, most during the occupation. Military recruitment is down 45% for good reason. Word has gone out: You don't come home in a body bag, you come home like an IKEA bookcase -- some assembly required.
We should have had a goal, a clear exit strategy, before we even began. It's time we set one."
Want to defeat people like Rick Santorum? Step up to the plate. The letters, the petitions, the ad campaigns... they're working.
ETA: Ooo. MoveOn's part of the very effective coalition including the AFL-CIO, the Campaign for America's Future, AFSCME and USAction that blocked changes to Social Security.
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Date: 2005-06-30 10:50 pm (UTC)"Uh, sir? We've got people camping out in the lobby. They're demanding.... Er, well, I've never even heard of this writer, but apparently her agent sent you the manuscript three months ago, and you have yet to read it. I think we might just want to give in on this one...."
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Date: 2005-06-30 11:12 pm (UTC)Publishing exec peers down at the teeming throng. The sword-swallowers were a nice touch, but flaming batons were probably against code. "Who is Tacitus?"
"Apparently that is the main character."
"Hmm." He sighs. "All right."
"Aren't you going to read it?"
"Do we need to?"
"Good point." The assistant turns to leave.
"Oh -! And Al?"
Al pauses. "Hmph?"
"Find out who did her marketing."
Icarus