From: futrelle@shout.net
Subject: Et tu, Durbin
Date: July 18, 2007 10:41:21 PM CDT
To: senator_obama@obama.senate.gov
Today a number of local peace activists spoke to Dick Durbin by telephone on the subject of Iraq. I wasn't able to be on the call but word spread pretty quickly about what he said.
• No impeachment (it's "too time consuming"--as if that is somehow more important than upholding the constitution!)
• No funding cut to the war (don't want to be accused of "not supporting our troops", so you vote to finance war crimes).
• No withdrawal (just "redeployment" leaving substantial US troop presence in the Middle East, all but ensuring more war).
In short, utter complicity with the Bush administration's criminal war. The exact same line you're taking, Mr. "Audacity of Hope".
It is indeed audacious to hope for you to place the people's interests above your party's. What is not audacious, but rather the simple responsibility of every citizen who believes in this democracy, is to demand that you either hold Bush and Cheney accountable for their betrayal of the people by supporting their impeachment, or else resign so that someone willing to do that can take your place.
We're coming to Washington by the thousands. The blood of Bush and Cheney's crimes is on your hands now. It will not be on ours.
--
Joe Futrelle
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