Support Cindy! Write your Local Congressmen!

[Dem Agog]

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/?lvl=L

I wrote both of my Republican senators: DeMint & Graham for South Carolina. My local House rep is a Democrat and so my letter to him was different.

Here's what I sent these 2... Feel free to copy & paste/modify - be sure to remove references to DeMint and insert your own - for YOUR congressman (as long as you don't live in South Carolina, I don't want them to think its a form letter & thus ignore it)...

Mr. DeMint,

As one of your constituents I am writing you briefly to respectfully request that you urge President Bush to meet with Cindy Sheehan and provide her the audience that she deserves.

Millions of us in the United States question the legitimacy of Mr. Bush's rush to war in Iraq. The memos from Downing Street, testimony on Capitol Hill and other other evidence clearly points to a war that was orchestrated from the outset.

Instead of hunting down Osama Bin Laden, we're in a quagmire in a different country. Instead of focusing intensely on the war on terror, Mr.Bush has now created a terror haven in Iraq, a country that did not have Al Quaeda connections prior to Mr. Bush's orchestrated war.

All Ms. Sheehan wants to know is what so many of the rest of us want to know.

"Why?"

Why did Mr. Bush send her son to his death in Iraq, when there was no evidence connecting Saddam Hussein's regime to 9/11?

Why does Mr. Bush still try to convince the American people that the war he wanted, and got, was just?

What is the noble cause? Mr. DeMint, I urge you to ask Mr. Bush to stand up for the first time since he was elected. Please ask him to stand up and explain his mistake. Please ask Mr. Bush to explain to Casey Sheehan's mother, and the rest of us, why 1,800 men and women have died, and thousands of Iraqi civilians have been murdered for a cause that has vaporized into nothing.

Mr. Bush has run his White House as a solo machine, accountable to no one, and particularly not to the American people. Mr. Bush needs to stand up and stand accountable to us for the first time ever.

As my representative, I ask you to insist on this accountability. As a member of the majority party in Congress and in the White House, you owe it to your constituents to see to it that other members of your party do not rampantly and flagrantly abuse the power that voters have given you.

In less than two years, the political environment in the House and Senate may be reshaped extensively because Republicans aren't requiring accountability within their own party. I urge you to stand up for that accountability and I urge you to encourage your colleagues to do so as well.

Trust me, those of us who go to the polls in 2006, and those of us who will walk hundreds of miles on foot, if necessary, to get out the vote in 2006, are watching the behavior of every congressman in Washington, D.C. If you will not hold the President accountable, we will elect congressmen who will.

So please, take this first baby step in demanding accountability by asking Mr. Bush to meet with Ms. Sheehan privately, and asking him to explain the "noble cause" for which he ordered her son to Iraq.

And if there was no "noble cause" which many of us are beginning to suspect, then please move forward with holding Mr. Bush responsible for whatever crimes a world leader who pre-emptively strikes against a country for no good reason, should be held responsible for. This kind of behavior hasn't happened since the 1940's, and a world leader unchecked is a dangerous man.

I thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and I trust that you will do the right thing for the myself and for the voters in your district who hired you into your position in the first place.

Sincerely,
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[Not_Giving_Up]

1. I did days ago

Somehow, I don't think Tom DeLay is going to encourage * to meet with her. Kay Bailey Hutchison either, but e-mails were sent.

[ceusi]

2. I'm in

I wrote my senators yesterday. Short and sweet.

"Have they written to Cindy to thank her for doing their job of holding the administration accountable or are they planning to go in person? And how much I wish I could vote for her, but until then, I've sent her a contribution."

I'm with John at Americablog. No more money to people who are refusing to support democracy. My money's on Cindy.

I just wrote to Drudge to ask if Cindy's "numerous cousins" who support Bush and the war are in uniform in Iraq? Could he get pictures?

I'm going to O'Reilly next. I would love it if we swamped them with requests to show these people's patriotism. I'm betting they're all Yellow Elephants, if they even exist.