Fwd: Condoleezza Rice Confirmation Hearings: Help Shape the Debate

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Please ACT on this

Also, please forward to others in California

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Peace and good health,

MaryKaye

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Dear Friend in California,

 

FCNL needs your help now! Next week, confirmation hearings will be held for

nominee for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Your senator, Senator Boxer,

sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and will have the opportunity to

play a critical role in our nation’s dialogue by asking important questions at

the hearing about U.S. policy in Iraq. We encourage you to use this unique

opportunity to contact your senator and urge her to pursue a line of questioning

regarding U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq. You can help to shape the debate!

 

Action:

Please call, fax, or email Senator Boxer and urge her to ask Secretary-designate

Rice to explain clearly the administration’s plan for reconstructing Iraq and

for withdrawing all U.S. troops and bases from the country. Urge your senator to

ask nominee Rice to clarify that the U.S. has no intentions of indefinitely

maintaining U.S. troops or bases in Iraq. Urge her to ask Rice to state clearly

that U.S. policy is to withdraw all troops and bases.

 

To send a letter from FCNL’s web site, visit

http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=6802116 & type=TA & azip=92804 and

click on the “Go” button.

 

To reach Senator Boxer by telephone, call the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121.

 

Please forward this message on to others in your state.

 

Sincerely,

Kathy Guthrie

FCNL Field Program Secretary

800-630-1330

 

 

 

 

 

 

Background:

You are receiving this action alert because you are in a state that has a

senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At confirmation hearings,

senators on the relevant committee pose questions to the nominee regarding any

issues of concern. We at FCNL want senators to focus attention on the situation

in Iraq, and we urge you to contact your senator to that end.

 

At confirmation hearings senators pose questions to: 1) put nominees on the

record committing to certain issues, 2) bring to light past actions of the

nominee, and 3) begin public dialogues. At this time, we feel that Iraq should

be a central component of these upcoming hearings. The U.S. must state that its

intention is to withdraw all U.S. military forces and bases from Iraq. After

openly stating that it has no imperial intentions to stay in Iraq, the policy

discussion may be shifted to the how, the when, and the why of U.S. withdraw. A

public statement of intent for eventual withdraw from the administration would

be a critical turning point.

 

This confirmation hearing is a unique time to have a national debate on the

situation in Iraq. With over 100,000 Iraqis dead, more than 1,300 U.S. troops

killed, and almost two years of instability, the time to have this debate is

now. Your actions will help to make this possible.