I need everyones help here

[stormrider]

Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:56 AM
Subject: Congress needs to hear from YOU!


> "As a growing majority of the American public continues to demand
that we
> bring our troops home from Iraq, it is essential that we have a
> coordinated grassroots effort to hold elected officials accountable.
PDA
> has understood this from the very beginning and their new 'Pledge for

> Peace' initiative is a great way to organize." Rep. Lynn Woolsey
>
>
> National Call-In Day
> Thursday, September 6
> Capitol Hill Switchboard: 202-224-3121
>
> http://pdamerica.org/petition/pledge-for-peace.php
>
> As part of the PDA Fall Peace Offensive, we ask you to join the
nationwide
> effort to flood the offices of our members of Congress with calls
> demanding an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Let's make it clear:

> there cannot be "business as usual" in Washington until effective
action
> is taken to bring all the troops home!
>
> Call your Representative and both Senators on Thursday, September 6th
> Capitol Hill Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
>
> Seventy members of Congress have already signed an open letter
> (http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2...59-11-misc.php) to
> President Bush stating they "will only support appropriating
additional
> funds for U.S. military operations in Iraq during Fiscal Year 2008
and
> beyond for the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out
of
> Iraq."
>
> We need every PDA activist or ally to spread the word that now is the
time
> to contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
> (http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/a...172701&type=CU)
and
> members of Congress to end the Iraq occupation.
> The popularity of Democrats in Congress is dwindling as they allow
the
> Iraq occupation to continue.
>
> Let's rally around those Congress members who are standing firm in
using
> their power of the purse to carry out the voters will of
disengagement
> from Iraq, and let's put pressure on the others to join them.
> PLEASE, Pass this Email on & Take Action to end the occupation!
I just got this email a few minutes ago.If anyone would like to help flood capitol hill with phone calls on Thursday. Like the email also said pass this on to everyone humanly possible that are americans.

[Wingnut!]

I'm with ya Stormrider!!

Just received word that our "adopted" son is going to Iraq Oct. 2nd!!

He's with Marine Corp recon so I know he'll be in the thick of it!

Gregg

[stormrider]

My neice and her hubby are leaving for round 2 in Iraq next week. gl to your son gregg.
ken

[Wingnut!]

Hey stormrider,

Mike is not my son, he is my son Tom's best friend and they always hang out together!
They met in school and I coached the boys in Travel Hockey, which is very expensive so I helped Mike's mom pay for his ice bills and find him equiptment! So hence "adopted son"!

Mike and Tom are a treat to watch on the ice!
LOL... These two could just p*** off the devil !....LOL....Wolverine ,you'd be proud of them...LOL

Our thoughts and prayers go out to your neice and her husband also!

Take care,
Gregg

[SouthwestRanger]

I thought this would be of interest as well....

Bush tells biographer: 'I do tears'
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer
Tue Sep 4



WASHINGTON - Under that famously self-confident exterior is a president who weeps ? a lot.

President Bush told the author of a new book on his presidency that "I try not to wear my worries on my sleeve" or show anything less than steadfastness in public, especially in a time of war.




Care to shed a few here Mr. Bush ?

"I fully understand that the enemy watches me, the Iraqis are watching me, the troops watch me, and the people watch me," he said. Yet, he said, "I do tears."

"I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president. I'll shed some tomorrow."

Bush granted journalist Robert Draper several extended interviews in late 2006 and early 2007, as well as unusual access to his aides, for the book "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush," which went on sale Tuesday.

Draper's account of the bulk of Bush's presidency sheds light on a loyal and secretive inner circle that, at least privately, was not always on the same page. Draper tells of an April 2006 dinner at which Bush asked aides for a show of hands on whether his divisive defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, should be fired.

The vote: 7-4 to get rid of him, with Bush siding with those who wanted him kept on for the time being. Rumsfeld was replaced after the elections that fall switched control of the House and Senate to Democrats.

White House aides who wanted Rumsfeld out were privately dismayed when retired generals called publicly for his ouster, fearing that would steel Bush's resolve to keep his defense chief, the book says.

Bush, without addressing that meeting, suggested to the author that the ex-generals did get under his skin.

"My reaction was, 'No military guy is gonna tell a civilian how to react,'" he said.

Also in the book, Bush:

_Acknowledged that sectarian violence after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein was "something we didn't spend a lot of time planning for. We planned for what happens if Saddam and his people dug into Baghdad," and we figured the Iraqi leader was fomenting ethnic divisions that would ease when he was gone. The opposite happened.

_Said he wants to make money ? "replenishing the ol' coffers" ? after his presidency. He said he could make "ridiculous" money on the lecture circuit, citing the experience of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, as well as his own father.

_Recalled his drinking days and how faith gave him the discipline to stop.

"I wouldn't be president if I kept drinking. You get sloppy, can't make decisions, it clouds your reason, absolutely. I still remember the feeling of a hangover, even though I haven't had a drink in twenty years." He said he ate chocolate in the evenings after he swore off booze, because his body missed the sugar.

_Told of a false alarm the night of Sept. 11, 2001, when he and his wife, Laura, were in bed in the White House after the day's traumatic events and a Secret Service agent came to the bedroom and told them to get to the bunker. "They're coming," the agent said. "We're under attack." The couple hurried to the bunker, the president carrying a dog under one arm and a cat under the other, with his wife slipping on a bathrobe and fuzzy slippers, feeling blind without her contact lenses. The source of the alarm ? a plane in closed airspace over the Potomac River ? turned out to be an authorized flight.

Draper, a national correspondent for GQ magazine, is a former editor at Texas Monthly, where he profiled Bush when he was Texas governor

[gus danger]

Bush's war is hitting pretty close to home for you guys! I hope your loved ones return home, from harms way, un-harmed.

Stormrider, I get similar email from True Majority. They claim "national call in day" is the 4th and 5th, whereas it's listed as the 6th in your post.

True Majority is a great way to stay "in the know" about what's happening.
If anyone wants the addy, let me know!

<font size="4">WAR IS OVER</font> <font size="1">IF YOU WANT IT</font> //oo\\
Gus

[SouthwestRanger]

Here's one man with a true vision



www.ronpaul.com

[stormrider]

Gus my source is Progressive Democrates of America. my sources include A28.org and PDA. so were going to bug the heck out of the capitol over the next few days. Tommorrow is PDA's turn.

[stormrider]

ty Wing nut my prayers go out to Mike.

[stormrider]

I do support the troops hope they all come home but I dont agree with this war. I was in desert storm. My thought about this war is if we were allowed to finish it then would we be there again now?