Thursday, December 15, 2005
Move On .Org
I received this today and think its worth supporting, but my meager contribution is not going to reach far, If you are reading this and know me I doubt that you would have enough to make a difference either, but If we both contribute and all their other members nationwide contribute maybe It can be done.
Dear MoveOn member,
Yesterday MoveOn volunteers delivered 400,000 petition signatures to 285 congressional offices urging Congress to insist on an exit strategy plan for Iraq. This morning good news arrived: an additional 30 Democrats in Congress have signed on as cosponsors of the Murtha exit strategy.1
President Bush is on a public relations campaign to block an exit plan. But today's Iraqi elections could be a turning point. The media will be talking about what's next. We've made a new ad that reminds reporters and the publicÂ?at this key momentÂ?that Iraqis want us out of Iraq. We can start running it on TV on Monday if we can raise $250,000 today.
Can you contribute before today's deadline?
https://political.moveon.org/donate/iraqideadline.html
(You can also check out the script and storyboard for the TV ad there.)
We want to run the ad in the districts of the most vulnerable Republican members of Congress, to make it clear that there will be real accountability for those who don't endorse an exit strategy.
We're under deadline today because the media discussion about post-election Iraq will only last until the middle of next week. Without the $250,000 we can't run the ad.
The ad has a simple message: Iraqis agree they don't want U.S. troops in Iraq. President Bush won't get us out, Congress has to act. As images of ordinary Iraqis appear on the screen, the narrator reads:
"A mother in Baghdad. A shopkeeper in Mosul. A family in Basra. They are Kurds. And Shiites. And Sunnis. Some are glad we came. Some aren't. They rarely agree on anything. But a recent poll shows that most Iraqis think our troops should leave their country. Now, their election is over, but George Bush doesn't have a timetable for an exit. So it's up to Congress to bring our troops home."
We've found that people who are ambivalent about leaving Iraq feel more confident it is the right path when they learn that a majority of Iraqis don't support U.S. troop presence:
According to a new ABC News poll, 65% of Iraqis oppose our presence in Iraq.2
An internal, classified British Defense Ministry poll found that 82% of Iraqis favor "near-term withdrawal" of U.S. forces.3
In Cairo, Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish leaders met recently and called on the U.S. for an exit plan.4
This ad is important but we can't put it on TV unless we beat the fundraising goal. Please contribute before the deadline.
https://political.moveon.org/donate/iraqideadline.html
The petition delivery events yesterday were a huge success thanks to the hard work of several hundred MoveOn volunteers who braved freezing rain, snow and ice in some places. Reports are still coming in, but I've attached below the report-back our Organizing Director, Justin Ruben, sent to MoveOn staff at 1:08 AM.
Thanks for all you do.
Â?Tom, Carrie, Matt, Tanya and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Dear MoveOn member,
Yesterday MoveOn volunteers delivered 400,000 petition signatures to 285 congressional offices urging Congress to insist on an exit strategy plan for Iraq. This morning good news arrived: an additional 30 Democrats in Congress have signed on as cosponsors of the Murtha exit strategy.1
President Bush is on a public relations campaign to block an exit plan. But today's Iraqi elections could be a turning point. The media will be talking about what's next. We've made a new ad that reminds reporters and the publicÂ?at this key momentÂ?that Iraqis want us out of Iraq. We can start running it on TV on Monday if we can raise $250,000 today.
Can you contribute before today's deadline?
https://political.moveon.org/donate/iraqideadline.html
(You can also check out the script and storyboard for the TV ad there.)
We want to run the ad in the districts of the most vulnerable Republican members of Congress, to make it clear that there will be real accountability for those who don't endorse an exit strategy.
We're under deadline today because the media discussion about post-election Iraq will only last until the middle of next week. Without the $250,000 we can't run the ad.
The ad has a simple message: Iraqis agree they don't want U.S. troops in Iraq. President Bush won't get us out, Congress has to act. As images of ordinary Iraqis appear on the screen, the narrator reads:
"A mother in Baghdad. A shopkeeper in Mosul. A family in Basra. They are Kurds. And Shiites. And Sunnis. Some are glad we came. Some aren't. They rarely agree on anything. But a recent poll shows that most Iraqis think our troops should leave their country. Now, their election is over, but George Bush doesn't have a timetable for an exit. So it's up to Congress to bring our troops home."
We've found that people who are ambivalent about leaving Iraq feel more confident it is the right path when they learn that a majority of Iraqis don't support U.S. troop presence:
According to a new ABC News poll, 65% of Iraqis oppose our presence in Iraq.2
An internal, classified British Defense Ministry poll found that 82% of Iraqis favor "near-term withdrawal" of U.S. forces.3
In Cairo, Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish leaders met recently and called on the U.S. for an exit plan.4
This ad is important but we can't put it on TV unless we beat the fundraising goal. Please contribute before the deadline.
https://political.moveon.org/donate/iraqideadline.html
The petition delivery events yesterday were a huge success thanks to the hard work of several hundred MoveOn volunteers who braved freezing rain, snow and ice in some places. Reports are still coming in, but I've attached below the report-back our Organizing Director, Justin Ruben, sent to MoveOn staff at 1:08 AM.
Thanks for all you do.
Â?Tom, Carrie, Matt, Tanya and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
