No on Condoleezza Rice

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Dear MoveOn member,

Late last year, George W. Bush nominated National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State -- the top diplomat for the United States abroad. The Senate is debating today and will vote tomorrow on her promotion.

No one in the country, except perhaps President Bush, is more responsible for pushing the pre-war lie that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. At the same time CIA briefings told Dr. Rice that Iraq had no active nuclear program, she was appearing on TV talk shows raising that possibility. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," after all, was Rice's line. And when the war started, Rice was one of its central architects and continued the WMD deception asserting, "I believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," and telling us, "we're finding interesting things." Last month the U.S. military formally ended the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

No National Security Advisor in recent history has been more deceptive or more inept. And there are few people in the world who enjoy less credibility with our foreign allies than Condoleezza Rice.

Senate Democrats have signaled their willingness to hold her accountable for these mistakes -- they've delayed her confirmation by a week for more intense questioning. And senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry have already announced that they're voting against her confirmation. Please call your senators, listed below, and urge them to join Boxer and Kerry in opposing Dr. Rice's confirmation.

Senator Charles Schumer: 202-224-6542
Senator Hillary Clinton: 202-224-4451

After you make your call, please click on the link below to let us know you called.
http://www.moveon.org/callmade16.html?id=5063-169500-ZvpBymHF617sSYtuMmpR4Q

Because Republicans control the Senate, it's likely that Rice will be confirmed. But if there was ever a moment for Democrats to hold someone accountable for the disastrous war in Iraq, it's today.

Please make your phone call today. Let's make it clear that Condoleezza Rice should be reprimanded, not promoted.

Thanks for all you do.

--Tom Matzzie
MoveOn.org
January 25th, 2005

P.S. You might find these articles helpful.

Senate Begins Debate on Rice Nomination
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050125/ap_on_go_co/senate_rice

U.S. Gives Up Search for Iraq WMD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4169107.stm


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