this week's letter to bayh, chocola and lugar

[IndianaGreen]

From e-mail alert from MPJC:

http://community.michiana.org/justice/

August 12, 2005

Senator Evan Bayh
Leighton Plaza, Suite 110
130 S. Main St.
South Bend, IN 46601

Dear Senator Bayh:

As I write to you today, Cindy Sheehan, mother of an Army specialist killed
last year in Iraq, is camped outside President Bush's ranch while he
vacations in Crawford, Texas. She's demanding to meet with the
commander-in-chief and ask him why he sent her son off to die.

We ask you to join her cause. Demand an explanation for why Casey Sheehan's
life had to end at age 24, why, so far, 2,033 coalition troops, including
1,841 Americans, have had to give up their lives. The nine pages that
follow list the U.S. fatalities just since our last letter to you at the
end of July.

Ask President Bush why he couldn't he let the U.N. inspectors do their
work, as so many of us pleaded for him to do. As we all know now, they
hadn't turned up any weapons of mass destruction because none existed.

Ask President Bush why he and his subordinates continue to mention 9/11 and
Iraq in the same breath when no evidence exists to link the two.

Ask President Bush why he touted the Iraq invasion as a way to "take the
fight to the terrorists" when al-Qaeda had no presence in Iraq under
Saddam. A more accurate statement would have been, "We're sending our
troops over there so the terrorists of the Middle East will have some
Americans close at hand to kill and won't be tempted to come over here and
kill us."

Ask him why he chose to respond to the crimes of mass murder committed on
9/11 by declaring war on a stateless enemy, a criminal gang, instead of
cooperating with law enforcement to bring to justice the surviving gang
members and conspirators.

We've asked this before, we ask it again: Demand explanations. Demand
accountability.

An apology to Cindy Sheehan, to us, to the whole world is also in order.

With great concern,
writing on behalf of Michiana Peace & Justice Coalition, I am,



Ed Cohen

[BiggJawn]

1. Bath still thinks there's "enough Anthrax to fill a swimming pool"...

...laying around under the sand over there.

And if they never find it, Joe Libermann will convince him it's in Iran...

His staff doesn't even acknowledge receipt of my missives anymore...