[WCUSP] Cindy Sheehan dresses down Pelosi and Conyers

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From: Cincy Sheehan
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:04  AM
To: _sf.nancy at us.mail.gov_ (mailto:sf.nancy at us.mail.gov) 
Subject:  Open letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers, by Cindy Sheehan

Open  Letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers
We the People are Setting the Table  Now
Cindy Sheehan

Dear Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Conyers,

I am writing  this open letter to you both on the day after Veteran's Day. A 
day that has so  much more meaning to me since my son Casey was KIA in Iraq 
for absolutely no  reason but to line the pockets of the war machine. I cried in 
front of his  symbolic tombstone at Arlington Northeast in Philadelphia and I 
dreamed of him  before I awakened. Casey's "tombstone" was planted in the 
ground directly across  from Liberty Hall which was the birth place of our 
Republic. How tragic it was  to see 2842 tombstones of our brave young people who 
have been killed by people  who are trampling all over our Constitution and 
making a mockery out of the  separations of power and the original intent of that 
document. 2842 citizens who  were willing to volunteer for service and were 
killed by people who lied to the  world to send them to invade and occupy a 
country in a war of aggression that  has killed almost a million Iraqi citizens. 
How tragic it is that you both, our  newly elected Democratic leadership are 
already talking about abrogating their  Constitutional responsibilities, again.

We the people are shocked that  you two are already stridently saying over 
and over again that impeachment is  "off the table." Since the historic Nov. 7th 
elections, I have talked to a  boat-load of Americans who want impeachment on 
the table. We activists worked  hard to make these elections about national 
issues, like the illegal and immoral  occupation of Iraq, and the culture of 
corruption that, especially you, Ms.  Pelosi have been railing against for 
months now. And you, Mr. Conyers, have  already written a brilliant and detailed 
indictment of BushCo. We the people are  definitely puzzled by your rhetoric.

We the people put the Democrats back  into power because we want to see a 
change in this country and a rejection of  politics as usual. We want politics as 
unusual. We want to see the issue of  impeachment and a speedy and safe 
withdrawal of our troops from Iraq  de-politicized and brought into the realm of 
"right and wrong" where these  issues belong, not "right and left." 

We the people are here to tell you  that we are the ones that are going to be 
setting the table, now. For too many  years, we have allowed you people, who 
are just like us and elected by us and  from us, to tell us what the agenda 
will be. Like I told George in a recent  letter to him (no response yet, hmm), a 
sleeping giant has been awakened in this  country and we are not falling 
asleep again just because the Democrats, only  with grassroots involvement and 
commitment, are back in power in Congress.  

It turns our stomachs when you talk about "working" with the  Republicans. 
First of all, these people have allowed BushCo free rein in  committing their 
high crimes and misdemeanors and crimes against humanity. Why  would you want to 
work with murderers, liars, and crooks? When one works with  criminals, one 
becomes complicit and culpable for those crimes. We elected you  all to be 
different, not more of the same.

Secondly, and more  importantly, BushCo have openly committed egregious 
crimes which they have all  admitted to. The question really isn't: should they be 
impeached, but why  haven't they been impeached, removed from office and 
criminally charged and  tried for these crimes, yet? I believe that when 
Congressional Representatives  and Senators are sworn into office they take an oath to 
protect the  constitution, not to protect, aid, and abet criminals. The 
investigation and  eventual rubber stamp to begin impeachment proceedings against 
Nixon was a  bi-partisan effort and Nixon wasn't even investigated for the level 
of crimes  that BushCo should be investigated for. 

We realize that you have a  tremendous and daunting task before you both. We 
know for six years that your  governmental body has been busy giving its power 
away to a maniac who has abused  and misused that power so incompetently and 
tragically. However, to say that  impeachment can't be one of the issues that 
Congress begins immediate work on is  not giving you all enough credit. We 
know that you can do it! We have confidence  in your abilities. Impeachment has 
been done before in our country and it has  never before been so urgent.

How many times has George said that the  troops aren't coming home while he 
is president? How many times has BushCo lied  to us and admitted those lies? Or 
been caught in those lies? How many people  have they killed for greed of 
money and power and how many lives have been  destroyed by them? How many laws 
have BushCo broken and admitted to breaking?  How many people have they 
physically and mentally wounded by torture and by  sending our brave young people 
wrongly to Iraq and not supporting them when they  get there? How much longer will 
you allow them to violate and desecrate  everything that we hold dear as 
Americans and human beings? 

We the  people demand that you do your duties as officers and protectors of 
our  Constitution and we demand that you do your duties as members of humanity 
to  call a halt to the crimes against humanity of the Bush regime. 

When the  110th Congress is seated on January 3rd, we the people, who also 
have a duty to  our Constitution (We the People is the first line) and a duty to 
humanity will  be walking the halls of your offices to tell you what our 
agenda is and what we  want on the table.

I admire and respect both of you and I know you will  do the right thing, but 
you better heed the will of we the people, or we will  find other people who 
will. I hope you do believe that we want you to represent  us and not the 
special interests of the war machine. 

We the people are  serious about true change this time and we are willing to 
walk, work, sit,  stand, write, travel, sweat, freeze, be arrested, and scream 
for these  changes.

Impeachment and removal from office are not for the squeamish or  faint of 
heart, but we are neither of those things. We are all brave and  (p)(m)atriotic 
Americans who realize that healing of the political divide that  has 
characterized the Bush regime will only begin when our young people and the  people of 
Iraq see justice for all of the death and misery that they have  afflicted 
humanity with. Our children who have been sent to early graves or have  to live 
the rest of their lives with PTSD or missing limbs, and the people of  Iraq 
(not to mention the victims of Katrina) are crying out for this justice.  Justice 
is meted out everyday in our world and if BushCo are not brought to  justice 
then justice loses its meaning and effectiveness.

Do it for  Casey, do it for his buddies, do it for the people of Iraq, do it 
for the people  who were devastated by Katrina, do it to bring legitimacy back 
to Congress and  our Constitution, do it to raise our reputation in the 
international community,  do it just because it is the right thing to do.

See you on January  3rd.

Peace soon,
Cindy Sheehan
Activists can contact the potential  Madam Speaker at:
_sf.nancy at us.mail.gov_ (mailto:sf.nancy at us.mail.gov) 
and the potential  Chairperson of the Judiciary Committee, Hon. John Conyers, 
or your personal  Congressional Representative at:
_http://www.house.gov/writerep/_ (http://www.house.gov/writerep/) 


Cindy  Sheehan is Mother of Casey Sheehan who was KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04 by 
George's  war of terror.
Co-founder and President of _Gold Star Families for  Peace._ 
(http://www.gsfp.org/) 
Founder of Camp Casey Peace Institute
Author of _Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to  Activism_ 
(http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=519380) 
and Jail Bird for Peace. 
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