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Dear friends,

By all accounts, yesterday's elections were a referendum on the war, and the results were crystal clear: The voters overwhelmingly want peace.

For the antiwar movement, yesterday was a huge victory. By voting out pro-war candidates and making Iraq the central issue in the elections, we have translated antiwar sentiment into political power and made ourselves a force to be reckoned with. Congratulations to all of you who have contributed so much to bring us to this point.

But this is only the first step. Now comes the more crucial one: We must make sure that our new Representatives implement the will of the people and get our troops out of Iraq. We must keep the pressure on.

NO HONEYMOON FOR CONGRESS
We need to be in touch with our Representatives right away -- especially those who ran on an antiwar platform -- to let them know that the peace movement expects them to take immediate action to bring the troops home. Our friends at the new Mandate for Peace campaign will be gathering outside Rep. Pelosi's office in San Francisco tomorrow, Nov. 9, to demand that she speak up for the antiwar majority. (http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?calid=18622) Let's keep the momentum going.

1. Find your Representative's contact information:

* If the incumbent was reelected in your district, you can find his or her contact information through http://www.congress.org

* If you have a newly elected representative, you'll need to act extra quickly to contact them. Use Google, GoodSearch (http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=812450) or another internet search engine today to find the campaign website and/or campaign office for your Representative-elect -- most will be shut down in a matter of days.

2. Call or write your Representative right away to congratulate them on their victory and tell them that you're counting on the newly elected Congress, in its earliest days in office, to pass legislation requiring the prompt removal of all U.S. troops from Iraq and to discontinue funding for military purposes in Iraq except the safe withdrawal of all U.S. forces.

Ideally, you should also request a face-to-face meeting with your new member of Congress, which is one of the strongest ways to communicate this message. If you do, be sure to bring participants from various constituencies in your community who share your opposition to the war. Do an online search beforehand for any polls that show the strength of antiwar sentiment in your community, and bring detailed information from the National Priorities Project (http://www.nationalpriorities.org/) about the staggering financial cost of the war to your area. If you do meet with your Representative, please send a reportback to congress@unitedforpeace.org

3. Send a personal email to friends, neighbors, and coworkers in your Congressional district and urge them to contact your Representative with a similar message. Include the contact information you've found through your online research.

4. Forward this action alert widely, to people all around the country, and post it on websites and blogs.

There can be no honeymoon for this new Congress. People are dying in Iraq every day, the chaos worsens, the costs continue to escalate. Join United for Peace and Justice and our friends and allies in the Mandate for Peace Campaign (http://www.mandateforpeace.org/) in making sure that the clamor for peace at the polls turns into real action for change.

So...a complete withdrawal of US forces in Iraq will mean peace in that region?

Exactly.

This is the mindset of many Liberals - if we withdraw our forces, there will be peace in our time. In other words, they'll leave us alone if we only leave them alone.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and this type of thinking is dangerous.

hahaha. hahahahahahaaa

There may not be peace, but Americans would no longer be killed in what has basically become an Iraqi civil war or killed by terrorists whose sole purpose in Iraq is to kill Americans soldiers and anybody fighting along side them.

I'd rather we take the fight to them on their soil than have them take the fight to the streets of America...wouldn't you?

Nothing like the right-wing fear mongering.

Have you ever had an original thought about anything?

I love this argument - if you aren't in the military or heading to an enlistment center, then you are a chickenhawk and are a terrible person who promotes sending other people off to defend the country.
Don't forget to rag on anyone who says that going into Afghanistan to dismantle the terrorist's training camps was a good idea and they were all for it. Bunch of chickenhawks, right?

Funny how, as time continues to pass, the lessons of 9/11 devolve into "right-wing fear mongering."

No, I haven't. But I'll start now. Let's see, ok, how about one of your "original" moonbat comments - "President Bush is mentally challenged."
There, I feel a lot better now.

Who's the pussy? I'm ready to take on teh "terrorists" right here at home. You're the one who can't stand the idea of another attack and wants to go kill a couple hundred thousand Iraqis so that nobody blows up a bomb in America and kills a few people.

"Bring it on". Right here, you fucking Islamist fucks. Come and get it.

I'm not even going to worry about offering a rebuttal. I'm just thrilled that you are candid enough to admit you have never had an original thought about anything and that you just parrot other peoples opinions. This solves a great intellectual challenge that I have been faced with when reading many of your posts. I'm always saying to myself, "surely LF isn't such a simpleton" Now I know that its not you so much, its just that you latch on to the simpleton opinions of others and pass them off as your own. Knowing this now, I'll try to do a better job of disregarding you from now on.

Or maybe right-winger are provoking and acting on the very fears that terrorists try to cause.

Or maybe the lesson of 9/11 is "America shouldn't be an arrogant fucking asshole towards the rest of teh world." Did we learn that lesson yet?

That would be too obvious.

Funny how you don't offer a rebuttal, yet launch into yet another personal attack.
Look, I've advised you before to exercise your right to ignore/avoid any of my future posts. Seeing how you are such an original thinker and such an intellectual superior, surely you can follow your own advice.
I'm done. Please ignore "simpletons" like myself fron now on and continue to bathe in your self-righteousness. Remember, like the President, I'm just another moron for you to pity. Please spare me your verbal slapdowns from now on and we'll both be better off.

For the record, I can see the logic in taking the fight to the terrorists, and I have never advocated "killing a couple hundred thousand Iraqis."

Yes, don't poke at the beehive and there won't be a swarm.
After the terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 we didn't invade any countries. Thankfully they left us alone. Oh wait, no they didn't. There was that attack on the embassies...and then the bombing of the USS Cole....and the foiled Millenium plot.....and 9/11.