Anybody read this Roger Morris letter?

[Fire Bush]

It is your dedicated work that has been violated -- the flouted treaties you devotedly drew and negotiated, the estranged allies you patiently cultivated, the now thronging enemies you worked so hard to win over. You know what will happen. Sooner or later, the neoconservative cabal will go back to its incestuous think tanks and sinecures, the vice president to his lavish Halliburton retirement, Bush to his Crawford, Texas, ranch -- and you will be left in the contemptuous chancelleries and back alleys, the stiflingly guarded compounds and fear-clammy, pulse-racing convoys, to clean up the mess for generations to come.

You know that showcase resignations at the top -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or flag officers fingered for Abu Ghraib -- change nothing, are only part of the charade. It is the same with Secretary of State Colin Powell, who may have been your lone relative champion in this perverse company, but who remains the political general he always was, never honoring your loss by giving up his office when he might have stemmed the descent.

No, it is you whose voices are so important now. You alone stand above ambition and partisanship. This administration no longer deserves your allegiance or participation. America deserves the leadership and example, the decisive revelation, of your resignations.

Your resignations alone would speak to America the truth that beyond any politics, this Bush regime is intolerable -- and to an increasingly cynical world the truth that there are still Americans who uphold with their lives and honor the highest principles of our foreign policy


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Wow. Well worth reading the whole thing.

http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/05/21/resign/index1.html

About the writer:
Roger Morris served on the senior staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon until resigning over the invasion of Cambodia. An award-winning investigative journalist and historian, he is the author of several books, including "Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician." He is currently completing a history of U.S. policy and covert intervention in Southwest Asia.

[scarletlib]

1. excellent

If only...

[PATRICK]

2. who specifically is he talking to?

It sounds uncomfortably like people without whose skills things including terrorism could get worse or more likely people whose minds cannot entertain this moral choice.

Odd. Ellsberg urged whistleblowers. Several came forth, some by indirection or seeming accident.

Groups of scientists, lawyers, diplomats, you name it- have protested in media footnotes.

This exemplar of resignation call for resignations- to what end exactly? Is something like this going to move Congress(just recently brought into line "100%" beside their Not so great White Hope) an inch toward the consideration of impeachment?

Who next? Lee Harvey Oswald in a seance?

I am afraid with the lid on top of this country for it to blow we need all the water to come to a boil, not a few noble bureaucrats taking one for democracy.

[Paradise]

3. excellent post!

it's true that the resignation of rumsfeld would mean nothing, be nothing but a charade.
however, what morris is calling for would be a stunningly effective exodus,
a huge front in our struggle to rid ourselves of this destructive regime.