Feinstein supporting warmonger Rice? She needs to hear from us!

[Peace Patriot]

Here's my letter just sent to Diane Feinstein. Below, her contact info. Go to it DUers! She really needs to hear from us!

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Dear Senator Feinstein:

I was just informed by a news article that you will be introducing Condoleeza Rice to the full Senate next week, while our other California Senator, Barbara Boxer, is doing the right thing and vigorously opposing this nomination.

I am appalled that you are apparently supporting Condoleeza Rice, and I wait anxiously to hear from you that your introduction of her to the Senate is merely a formality, and that you will be speaking and voting against her appointment as Secretary of State.

The war in Iraq is by far the worst and most disastrous mistake that the Bush regime has made, and Condoleeeza Rice, whom George Bush has nominated for Secretary of State, has been responsible for conveying the false justifications for this war to the American people and to the Congress.

We need a Secretary of State whose word we can trust, and who can be trusted by other countries. Condoleeza Rice does not meet that job description.

I oppose her appointment as Secretary of State, and I support the efforts of Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry to obtain answers from her on the matter of misleading America into war. I support their votes against her appointment, and I urge you to do the same in the full Senate.

Thousands of Americans have been killed and wounded, over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed and many have been imprisoned and tortured, in this war—a war based on falsehoods, and a war that also holds grave consequences for America's reputation as a just and conservative country for whom the use of a force is a last resort.

The administration is now stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, similar to the one in Vietnam in which over 50,000 US soldiers and over one million Vietnamese were killed—and now the regime is spoiling for war in additional countries.

The American people cannot continue to pay for these reckless and bloody policies, and we can no longer tolerate war crimes being committed in our name. Nearly 60% of the American people oppose the Bush Regime's war in Iraq.

Ms. Rice has also been less than candid about the failures of this administration to protect the U.S. from the 9/11 attack, and supports policies of completely unethical interference in the internal affairs of other countries, such as Haiti and Venezuela.

A regime that holds power on the tenuous grounds of massive vote suppression against minority voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, on the further tenuous grounds of a non-transparent election system that is controlled by partisans of the regime, and that currently has almost 60% of the American people opposing its war policy, would be well advised not to commit further arrogant acts against the consent of the governed, such as nominating for Secretary of State a person whose lies have resulted in countless unnecessary deaths.

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The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-0504

DC Phone:
202-224-3841

DC Fax:
202-228-3954

Email Address:
http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html

WWW Homepage:
http://feinstein.senate.gov/

District Offices:

750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101-8126
Voice: 619-231-9712
FAX: [phone]

Federal Office Building, Suite 2446
1130 O Street
Fresno, CA 93721-2201
Voice: 559-485-7430
FAX: [phone]

1 Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Voice: 415-393-0707
FAX: [phone]

11111 San Monica Boulevard, Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA 90025-3343
Voice: 310-914-7300
FAX: [phone]

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Feel free to use this letter as a template to all Senators and media. See our LETTER OF THE WEEK posts at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x296466

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x294547

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=293412&mesg_id=293412

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Lapdog media on the war/antiwar showdown Tues-Wed in 9 hour full Senate hearing on Rice nomination (that's my read on it--the warmonger Democrats vs. those I will be supporting in the future):

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050120/D87NRVAG0.html

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050117/pl_afp/usricepolitics_050117223654

[slay]

1. Didn't this already happen this week?

The article you are referring to is dated Monday the 17th.

Senate set to query Rice for Secretary of State

Mon Jan 17, 5:36 PM ET

Add to My Yahoo! Politics - AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) begins two days of fielding tough questions from senators about her role in shaping Iraq (news - web sites) policy, but appears to face few obstacles to confirmation as the next secretary of state.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050117/pl_afp/usricepolitics_050117223654

[Peace Patriot]

2. That was the committee hearing. It's going full Senate Tuesday.

Sorry to confuse. You're right--the article was prior to the Foreign Relations Committee hearings. I meant to say it was background.

This full Senate debate Tuesday-Wednesday is a huge deal. We will have Boxer, Kerry, Byrd and others trying to block Rice appointment, with possible filibuster, and...Feinstein introducing Rice??!!

Feinstein with the BushCons??!!

I can't say I'm that surprised, but it just makes me sick--that she would go THAT FAR--to INTRODUCE RICE, while other Dems are trying to get rid of her!

There are plenty of BushCons who would have done it. Let THEM defend this liar and mass murderer, and warmonger, and oilmonger!

Why the hell is a Democrat doing this?

[slay]

5. Ah, gotcha..

I totally agree. Let all the senators know that we will be watching.

[OKthatsIT]

32. picture

Diane and Condasleeza are friends from way back, I hear.



Here is a quote from Diane Feinstein-
Jul.01 > <•X> California Senator Diane Feinstein, who is on the Intelligence Committee, warns CNN “Intelligence staff tell me that there is a major probability of a terrorist incident within the next three months.”

Did the 9/11 Commission ever ask Sen Feinstein about this 'inside' info getting to the Bush cabinet. You think Sen Feinstein would contact her girlfriend and warn her too...you know, the girl friend thats a member of the President's cabinet?

their relationship is freaky

[EFerrari]

3. Feinstein's personal interests are closely aligned with the Bush Mafia

She and her husband profit from defense contracts and also in bilking Medicare. We have to get rid of her.

I'll write today but we've got to look ahead and find a good candidate who's not afraid to run against her.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Agreed. KICK! n/t

[the ether]

6. I totally agree, Make an example of Feinstein to other war profiteers

and bring her down.......



is her seat up in 2006?

[BlueTarheel]

27. Yes it is

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=BOXER-01-23-05&cat=WW


snip

Boxer was elected in November with 57.8 percent of the vote, collecting a million more votes than Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein garnered in her 2000 re-election as the state's senior senator. Boxer's office said the 6.9 million votes she received are the most any senator in any state has ever received.




I'm more than ready to vote her out of office here in CA.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. I agree with you wholeheartedly on this. Perhaps those who write her

can mention that her personal interests in supporting Rice are blatantly obvious, and will eventually be exposed.

[EFerrari]

21. If the threat is too direct, she'll count us out. We have to keep our

support on the table.

(Yes, I know!)

[AntiFascist]

18. Here's a link, in case anyone's interested.....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL

URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm partially owned by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, landed an Army contract Monday worth up to $600 million.

....

[EFerrari]

19. One of the Blum Cos built CENTCOM and when I wrote to DF

before the war, she sent me a mendacious answer: she had secret knowledge and diplomacy had failed. Bull. Many of us have seen the declassified NIE -- it's full of qualifiers. As for diplomacy failing, longer horned bull. Bush diplomacy is an oxymoron.

She voted for a war that she stood to gain from.

She's gotta go.

Who can we put up?

[radio4progressives]

30. There You Have it! It's the Feinstein Crime Family War Profiteers, Inc.

This is what I was looking for last week when I learned that Feinstein was to escort this administrations Head Minister of Mis-information, Propaganda and Lies on the floor of the Senate Foreign Relations committee's confirmation hearing last week.

This factoid all but missed my radar screen during the invasion of Iraq, and so too, it missed my focus during the 2004 elections.

Now we know there are others, and they with Feinstein must be eventually recalled. But that will take a little bit of time and huge effort.

But at this moment, we need to re-EXPOSE this little known matter far and wide, and wage a huge campaign in the next few days too pressure her and others to vote NO on Rice's confirmation.

Then we need to launch a recall on Feinstein, recruiting another candidate to replace her along with a few Reps such as Jane Harmann.

It's now or never.

[Sapphocrat]

7. As IF...

...DINO-Fi ever gave a shit. She doesn't -- take it from a constituent who wrote her regularly (nay, nearly religiously) since she first won her Senate seat. (Last letter was re Iraq "war" vote; I told her that if she insisted on ignoring the tens of thousands of letters/emails/faxes/phonecalls of protest, I wouldn't vote for her again even if she somehow singlehandedly made same-sex marriage legal tomorrow morning. Her canned response: She refused to vote in line with her constituency, because she knew things we stupid peons didn't. Like all those WMD? Yeah, right. Up yours, Di.) She makes Joe Lieberman look like a Kennedy.

Not jumping on you here, Peace; it's just that Di-Fi's deliberate "FUCK OFF!" to those of us who put her where she is, and who have continued to vote for her in spite of virtually everything she's done, is an extreme sore point for this Californian. I feel betrayed, and downright stupid, for ever wasting my faith in her. She's a friggin' redcoat.

Sign me,

Bittered, disillusioned Yank back in the U.S. after a month in Australia, where I was subjected to Shrub on the news only three times, and Steroid Boy Schwarzenegger only once

P.S. I love Boxer. Viva Babs!

[Peace Patriot]

10. Yeah, me, too! Lots and lots of letters...gr-r-r-r.

Then, what they'll do is move Jeb out here--with people in FLA ready to string him up Mussolini style, he'll have to flee to another state far away--and they'll have him run against her. And give us all the raspberry, and say, "Nyeah, y'all vagina Democrats, who ya gunna vote for, who ya gunna vote for Ne-e-eOW?!"

I can just hear it. We have absolutely got to dislodge Feinstein. When's her term up?

As for writing to her NOW, on THIS, it's really to support Boxer! Same letter is going to Boxer and all Senators, and I've told Boxer that's what I'm doing. We're doing multiple sends of this letter via the LETTER OF THE WEEK forum here at DU.

Truly, I have no expectation of Feinstein doing the right thing. But Boxer needs to know they're all getting crap from the public on this matter, Feinstein particularly. And it's going to Republicans as well. (--this is thanks to strategy laid out by darkworkz). (If Senator X knows that Senator Y has also gotten 50,000 letters on something, then Senator X has more leverage. Not that Senator Y will necessarily do the right thing, but might fudge things a bit, or help with a procedural matter, or in some way make the project easier for Senator X, and in dealing with BushCons, this is not unimportant.)

[senseandsensibility]

8. kick

You're right! We can't just let this slide.

[Peace Patriot]

11. Right! KICK! n/t

[Helga Scow Stern]

9. Right on! I will write all of her offices today. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

13. Connection to Election Fraud...

In order to get the election investigated, and get the educational value from that--which I think is the limit of what can be done in Congress--Boxer is key, and we must bolster her power in every way.

I remain convinced that we have to recover our right to vote, state by state, through state power over elections (and pray that the BushCons in Congress don't take that away, too, or that Democrats don't themselves do it in some misguided effort at "national standards"). (How would you like a "national standard" of 100% electronic voting, with a paper receipt that is usless in recounts, and continued secret, proprietary source code owned by BushCon companies? Because that's what it'll probably be, with BushCons in control. And the weak Dems will try to portray a paper receipt as a victory, when, in fact, we will be WORSE OFF than before, and will have NO avenue of remedy!)

BUT...Congressional investigation of election fraud is no bad deal as to educating the public--or making life hell for Bush minions--so we need to give Boxer max support especially in these early efforts to put the BushCons on notice that we are fightin' mad.

There is no chance that Rice will not be okayed by BushCon dominated Congress (just as there is no chance for real election reform there--it's strictly a matter of power, and BushCons simply don't respond to shame--they have no shame!). But the fight isn't about Rice, really. It's about His Fraudulency.

(Ya know, I just don't understand Democrats who are in denial about election fraud, who expect to be able to stop Bush from looting Social Security, for instance, with the threat that older voters will punish him and his congressional surrogates at the polls. It's just so dense of them. They don't seem to realize--they can't get it through their heads--that Bush & surrogates CANNOT be punished at the polls! Politics is over. Democracy is over. Until we get back our right to vote!)

[Hugin]

14. As long as Duh-bull-ya is playing the race card.

People will applaud...

Only problem is, these people he's appointing don't represent
any minority except athletic... I mean, bush supporters.

[Wilms]

15. Bye, bye, Di. n/t

[fooj]

16. Awesome letter! Sent her my little note last week...

NO MORE VOTES FROM THIS DEMOCRAT! EVER!!!!!! She has screwed up ONE TOO MANY TIMES! I think she'd have a better chance running as a repub! She's history!

[texpatriot2004]

17. kick

[EFerrari]

20. my letter to DF

Senator Feinstein,

We are writing today in opposition to the nomination of Dr. Rice to represent this nation as our chief Diplomat. Dr. Rice might be a very accomplished person but she has shown she is no diplomat, she was an architect of the most wrongheaded and costly war in our history and she has no respect for Congress or the American people.

Dr. Rice failed us prior to 9/11 and has been using 9/11 ever since to forward the Republican agenda, instead of pursuing policies in the national interest.

On the contrary, the policies crafted by Dr. Rice benefit defense contractors, not the United States nor the American people nor the Iraqi people whose hopes we have failed very well.


When we wrote to you before the war, you responded with two points. You said diplomacy had failed. And you said you had classified knowledge upon which your vote would be based.

"Bush diplomacy" is an oxymoron used by comedians. And we have now all seen the declassified NIE which is full of qualifiers.

I fully expect you to vote against this unbelievably inappropriate nomination and not fly in the face of your constituents wishes again.

Sincerely
Douglas and Elizabeth Ferrari
(contact info)

[Helga Scow Stern]

22. Good letter! n/t

[autorank]

23. My letter. Thanks for the link.

Dear Senator Feinstein: I am a long time resident of California who moved back east some time ago. I was a Democrat on the West Coast and I'm one here.

I am writing to tell you how shocked and amazed I am that you are heartily endorsing Condi Rice for Secretary of State. Rice got the memo about Bin Laden's attack plans in August and didn't raise red flags with Bush. The attack might have been prevented. She did nothing. She does not deserve your support.

I have frequent contact with friends in the Bay Area and Southern California. There are all shocked at your support of Rice and your other Bush support including the catastrophic Bush tax cuts.

Are you really serious about being a Democrat?

[EFerrari]

25. Great letter. check typo "there are all shocked" should be "they"

[troubleinwinter]

24. Sent a letter (she's my senator... fortunately, so's BOXER!)

[Wilms]

26. Diss Di n/t

[EFerrari]

28. Peace Patriot, I'm going to start a thread in the CA forum on this

Diane Feinstein really pulled SF together after the Moscone/Milk tragedies. But as a Senator, she has grown oblivious to her oath of office.

We have two years to develop a candidate to unseat her. I swear, we have so many talented people and we know were the real purse strings are -- in our back pocket. Let's do it! I'll start it on Monday morning and we better get to work immediately.

Caveat: As we go about this, we will warn Diane. But, I won't wait for her to see the light before I begin the project. She's used up her three wishes.

[Peace Patriot]

33. Agreed! Diane Feinstein must go--and all pro-war Dems!

And most importantly, any Dem who doesn't get on Election Fraud--and BushCon companies owning our voting system--RIGHT NOW!

I'm sick of their fiddle-faddling around on this!

[Peace Patriot]

29. Keep kicked through early this week! Showdown in Senate Tues. KICK! n/t

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