"Bush in Denial about Iraq": BarackObama.com starts sending letters to editors
In an effort to send a strong message about Iraq to Americans, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has begun a system for supporters to easily email editors of major national and local newspapers about Iraq, or any issue for that matter.
A letter is even written out for the supporters who have the option of re-writing it entirely or editing it.
An extract of an AP wire ("New intel report: Al-Qaida renewing efforts to sneak terror plotters into U.S.") :
On Thursday, news of the counterterrorism center's threat assessment renewed the political debate about the nature of the al-Qaida threat and whether U.S. actions -- in Iraq in particular -- have made the U.S. safer from terrorism.
At a news conference Thursday, President Bush acknowledged al-Qaida's continuing threat to the United States and used the new report as evidence his administration's policies are on the right course.
"The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on Sept. 11," he said. "That's why what happens in Iraq matters to security here at home."
Yet Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said Iraq has distracted the United States. He said the U.S. should have finished off al-Qaida in 2002 and 2003 along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Instead, "President Bush chose to invade Iraq, thereby diverting our military and intelligence resources away from the real war on terrorism," Rockefeller said. "Threats to the United States homeland are not emanating from Iraq. They are coming from al-Qaida leadership."
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An L.A. Times blog writes:
Dear (editor's name here)
It's an old established political game for campaigns to have supporters all across the country write local letters to the editor extolling the virtues of their candidate and perhaps planting seeds of doubt or mistruths about their opponents. Many of these letters sound remarkably alike. Thanks to Google, letters editors can now easily find common published phrasings and discard the form letters.
But Barack Obama's campaign is trying a new angle on the old game. He's not trying to get supporters to write letters about the candidate. He's trying to get them to write letters feeding the country's anti-war feelings and criticizing President Bush, who is not running.
the rest: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2007/07/dear-your-name-.html
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