Dear MoveOn member,

Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing
how the Pentagon created a special office to
manipulate intelligence data on Iraq and WMDs. It's
written by Karen Kwiatkowski, a military officer
who watched this unit at work, telling us the
inside story in her own words.

Click here to read the full story:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/

The Salon story makes it even clearer than before
that the Bush administration deliberately misled
us in the run-up to the war in Iraq a year ago.
The problem was not bad intelligence -- it was
deliberate distortion of the facts.

It's Congress' duty to hold President Bush
accountable for misleading us. Please call your
Senators and Representative now:

Senator Dianne Feinstein
Washington, DC: 202-224-3841

Senator Barbara Boxer
Washington, DC: 202-224-3553

Congressman Xavier Becerra
Washington, DC: 202-225-6235

Make sure they know you're a constituent, then
urge them to:

"Censure President Bush -- formally reprimand
him for misleading us
about Iraq's WMDs."

Give them some reasons why Censure is necessary.
Some good ones include:

- 553 American soldiers have given their lives in
Iraq;
- Tens of thousands of our troops remain in
harm's way there;
- A year later, we seem to have no exit strategy;
- Thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed;
- The President took us to war based on
assertions he knew were untrue -- for more info, see
http://www.moveon.org/censure/ad-doc.html ;
- Congress has a constitutional duty to act as a
check on the president.

Please let us know you're calling, at:

http://www.moveon.org/callmadeall3.html?id=2442-3261555-2ltMRoWozc2eodQh8RnQqQ

The new Salon story is important, not only
because of its revelations about how the Pentagon
cooked the books on WMDs, but also because it's the
first piece by Salon's new Washington, D.C. bureau.

Strong, independent news sources are more
important now than ever, as
traditional media become increasingly
concentrated under the control of just a few corporations,
and with major outlets like CBS nakedly kowtowing
to Republican interests. In this context,
Salon's new Washington, D.C. bureau is a major step
forward for all of us.

We hope you'll take a few minutes to read their
important article today. You can access it at:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/

Thank you.

Sincerely,

- Carrie, Joan, Noah, Peter, and Wes
The MoveOn.org team
Wednesday March 10th, 2004