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<DIV>I know that many people already have this, but on behalf of pvcast, let me
pass this on. Marty</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=moveon-help@list.moveon.org href="mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org">Nita
Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=martygjf@comcast.net
href="mailto:martygjf@comcast.net">Marty</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 25, 2007 11:18 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> The Generals Speak: Close Guantanamo Today</DIV></DIV>
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href="http://pol.moveon.org/endtorture/one_click_sign.pl?id=10571-3247795-73YRmd&t=1">"We
are Americans and in our America, we do not torture, we do not imprison
people without legal recourse, and we do not give any president unchecked
power. Congress must act quickly to rein in this over-reaching president
and overturn these un-American acts."</A>
<P>Clicking here will add your name:</P>
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<P>It hasn't hit the news wires yet, but retired Generals Robert Gard and John
Johns are going public today with something big. They're calling on Congress to
ban the use of torture, restore the right to trial and shut down the disastrous
prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.</P>
<P>You can be sure the blowback from the right wing will be serious. But there's
a growing chorus of judges, scholars, military experts, and regular folks who
believe that President Bush's abuse of our Constitution is making us less
secure. The generals join it just in time: There are new reports that even some
Bush administration insiders are pushing to shut down
Guantanamo.<SUP>1</SUP></P>
<P>This could be a tipping point in the fight to restore our liberties. <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Can you join Generals Gard and Johns TODAY—and call on
Congress to stop torture, close Guantanamo, and bring back the right to trial?
</SPAN>Clicking below will add your name to the petition. (You can read the full
petition text in the box to the right.)</P>
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href="http://pol.moveon.org/endtorture/one_click_sign.pl?id=10571-3247795-73YRmd&t=4">http://pol.moveon.org/endtorture/one_click_sign.pl?id=10571-3247795-73YRmd&t=4</A></P>
<P><STRONG>We'll deliver your comments directly to your senators and
representative TOMORROW—along with thousands of other voices from the ACLU, True
Majority and others as part of the biggest national day of action to restore law
and justice in years.</STRONG></P>
<P>Why now? Today, under the guise of the "war on terror," the White House is
systematically dismantling the very core principles that have made America
great. But even military leaders are speaking out against these policies because
they're putting our troops at risk. As Jon Soltz, an Iraq veteran and chairman
of VoteVets.org says:</P>
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<P>"Ending torture and shutting down Guantanamo are critical to protecting our
troops in the field and winning the hearts and minds of the people we need most.
If our government condones torture and detainment without trial, then our
enemies will take that as license to torture our troops. These acts tarnish our
image as a fair and just nation around the world."</P></DIV>
<P>We were hopeful that the new Congress would act quickly to right the wrongs
of the last six years. But they haven't done it yet.</P>
<P>A lot of Democrats in Congress don't understand that there are millions of us
who take our Constitution very seriously. They think that only elites worry
about the Constitution and they're worried about being attacked for being "weak
on security."</P>
<P>But preserving these core principles is essential to our security—we can't
lead on freedom abroad when we condone torture in our own backyard.</P>
<P>And this is far from a partisan issue. Conservatives have a stake in
preserving the integrity of our democracy too. In fact, head of the American
Conservative Union, David Keene and former Republican congressman Bob Barr have
signed on to a pledge very similar to this.<SUP>2</SUP></P>
<P>It's time to restate the simple, nonnegotiable truth about what it means to
be an American. What it means be a democracy. The president operates under the
law. We do not torture. We, like the founders of our country, believe that
liberty is the foundation of our security, not a threat to our security.</P>
<P>Clicking this link will add your name to the petition:</P>
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href="http://pol.moveon.org/endtorture/one_click_sign.pl?id=10571-3247795-73YRmd&t=5">http://pol.moveon.org/endtorture/one_click_sign.pl?id=10571-3247795-73YRmd&t=5</A></P>
<P>Thanks for all you do,</P>
<P>–Nita, Wes, Laura, Eli and the MoveOn.org Political Action
Team<BR> Monday, June 25th, 2007</P>
<P style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sources:</P>
<P>1. Guantanamo Splits Administration, Washington Post, June 22, 2007<BR><A
href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2673&id=10571-3247795-73YRmd&t=6">http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2673&id=10571-3247795-73YRmd&t=6</A></P>
<P>2. The American Freedom Agenda<BR><A
href="http://www.americanfreedomagenda.org/">http://www.americanfreedomagenda.org/</A></P></FONT>
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