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What the video doesn't mention, is that there is evidence that George Bush himself knew that it was a lie. That makes it an impeachable offence.

Internal State Department sources said that they saw an early draft of the "State of the Union" address that claimed that Iraq had tried to purchase nuclear material from Niger. After telling the White House to remove that statement, because it has been found to be false, the White House simply modified the sentence to be less specific. The next draft (and the draft used in the address) says "from Africa".

If Bush claims "he didn't know" then why did the state of the union address change?

We need a full investigation.
We need an impeachment hearing.

If lying about a blowjob is impeachable, then lying about something to start a war is much worse!

SIGN THE PETITION TODAY.

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From:

cos

Watch this speech. It's worth taking the time to watch it.

From:

donia.livejournal.com

Thanks for the link. I volunteered to work on Howard Dean's campaign about a month ago because he is one of the few Democratic candidates I can stomach.

From:

cos

Great! Are you also signed up for your local monthly Dean meetup?

I recommend watching that speech if you haven't already, even if - especially if - you're already a Dean supporter. I don't know how active you are, but if you'd like to do things, get in the habit of visiting http://action.deanforamerica.com/ regularly. Search for events or meetings near your ZIP code. Or, if you have an idea or get one from what you see there, create your own event and invite people.

Anytime you're in the mood for writing a letter to the editor, visit the Dean Defense blog for ideas and pointers to articles to respond to. And follow the Dean campaign blog to keep up with the campaign and what Dean is up to. You can actually add that blog to your LJ friends page, the RSS feed is

blogforamerica. We've also got a

howard_dean community you can join - I post there sometimes.

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donia.livejournal.com

You're quite an enthusiastic young man. No, I'm not signed up for the local Dean meetup because it occurs when I'm taking a class and when the class ends at the end of the month, I already committed myself to putting in more time at the animal shelter where I also volunteer.

I believe in living the slow life and that's one reason why I don't usually join volunteer outfits. They steadily take more and more of your time and become less and less understanding of why you don't want to devote your life to whatever cause.

I also have trouble marching in lockstep with a group. When I don't agree with something, I don't support it or do it. I'm not very good at going along with something I don't care for to present a unified front. I saw the speech and Dean's "people" regularly fill my inbox with stuff that's going on, so I think I'm set on keeping up with him.

I also subscribe to a least a dozen magazines and newpapers online and I can barely keep up with them, so I don't foresee adding anything else for quite awhile. Lastly, I only join communities that have longlasting subjects, such as those related to sex, music and the Chicago el. Dean will be gone at some point, whether it's next year or eight years from now; sex, music and the Chicago el will still be going strong.

I also feel I spend too much time on the Internet as it is, so I'm trying to keep my addiction on simmer. That said, I'm going to take a book over to the park now and kick back in the sun. I'm glad to hear that you're so active; it counteracts the people like myself who like to spend their free time sleeping late and lounging around.

From:

cos

I understand what you're saying.

The best thing about the Dean campaign is that it really is grassroots and driven by people - it's not just rhetoric. It's not like "joining a volunteer outfit" and it's certainly not "marching in lockstep with a group". Most Dean campaign work and events are done by people on their own initiative, are usually fun, and there's no expectation that you need to devote more time, or do one thing because you did another. People think and act independently, and the direction really is set from below, by individual actions, rather than from above. It wasn't empty hype when Dean said the people he's met have changed his views and the focus of his campaign. Your personal opinions matter a lot. The campaign provides resources and support when they can, but for the most part, this is a real grassroots campaign - the only one on this scale I've seen in my life.

If you're just on the official Dean campaign list, it may not seem very different from other campaigns. But if you ever get curious, try it and give it a chance. On the action site, you'll see house parties, tabling, and outreach events organized by people who don't work for the campaign and didn't get asked to do it by the campaign. If you go to something, you might find it to be fun. And you certainly won't be obligated or expected to go to someone else's event the next week. You can forget about it for a couple of months and then check again and go to something else.

The dean defense blog is another good example. They, again, are a group of volunteers who created the site on their own initiative, without direction from the campaign. They keep up on the press and post links and commentary on a daily basis. When you happen to be in the mood or have time, you can check the site, and if you feel like it, help out by writing a letter to the editor. Even if you don't write, you can be more informed by reading the articles they link to (which include, obviously, a lot of anti-Dean articles). And if you do email some newspaper or magazine, you'd be writing your own opinion, not a form letter - and you'd never be expected or obligated to do it again.

There's nobody but yourself to "take up more and more of your time", or to be less understanding of you don't want to devote more time. It's all about you, doing no more and no less than your whim tells you, when you want to. You can dip in, do something, and dip out, as you wish.

Of course that doesn't address everything you brought up, and I don't expect you'll change your mind. I just wanted to assuage the understandable apprehension you described about participating in volunteer and political groups, if that makes a difference. I'm heading out for the weekend now, so I will refrain from further comment. Have a great weekend!