URGENT: Tell your friends about Tuesday's Senate debate on Condoleezza Rice

[Guest guest]

Dear Mary,

 

Last week, more than 70,000 concerned citizens like you came together to sign my

petition and demand the truth from Condoleezza Rice. Your support emboldened me

during Dr. Rice's confirmation hearings to ask the tough questions that

Americans deserve to have answered. I can't thank you enough, and America can't

thank you enough.

 

Perhaps even more importantly, the groundswell of support you created forced the

Republican Senate leadership to give us what we wanted -- not a rubber stamp of

Dr. Rice's nomination by voice vote last Thursday before the Republicans dashed

off to Inaugural parties, but nine full hours of debate on the floor of the

United States Senate.

 

With your support, our voices are being heard -- in the halls of Congress, in

the White House, and across the country. So today I ask for your support once

more:

 

Help me add thousands more signatures to our petition to hold Condoleezza Rice

accountable. Tell your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues to sign our

petition, so that when I stand up on the Senate floor Tuesday and Wednesday, I'm

speaking with the power of tens of thousands of Americans behind me.

 

White House Chief of Staff Andy Card has attacked me as " small " for seeking the

truth. But I won't allow this Administration to try to sweep the facts about

our failures in Iraq and the war on terrorism under the rug. I'm taking the

" advice and consent " role, granted to the Senate in the U.S. Constitution,

seriously.

 

During the full Senate debate over Condoleezza Rice's nomination tomorrow, I

intend to take the floor, joined by many other of my Democratic colleagues, to

express my frustration about Dr. Rice's lack of candor during the confirmation

hearings -- her unwillingness to level with the American people about the

misleading statements she made about aluminum tubes, mushroom clouds, and

connections between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda to try to justify the war in

Iraq.

 

Condoleezza Rice refused to come clean about the actual number of trained Iraqi

forces on the ground. And perhaps even more disturbingly, she refused to tell

us why she personally intervened to kill an anti-torture provision in a recent

intelligence bill.

 

I refuse to let these misstatements, misjudgments, and poor decisions go

unanswered. So I ask you one last time, before the Senate debate Tuesday and

final vote on Wednesday, to tell everyone you know about our petition. Help me

find thousands more Americans who are willing to sign our petition and stand

with us.

 

I can't thank you enough for everything you've done over this past week. Now,

in these final 48 hours before the vote on Dr. Rice's nomination, I ask for your

help once more. Join me as we continue to fight for what's right -- because the

process of democracy is as important as the outcome.

 

In Friendship,

 

 

 

Barbara Boxer

U.S. Senator

 

 

P.S. After forwarding our petition to everyone you know, be sure to call or

email your Senators and encourage them to join us in Tuesday's debate.

Americans deserve a full and open debate about Dr. Rice's confirmation, as well

as the important issues like Iraq, the war on terrorism, and the use of torture

that underlie her nomination.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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