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Time to Act

I usually don’t ask you to do much. This site is more of an ongoing rant than an attempt at persuasion. However, if you’re concerned about the intelligence that was presented in support of going to war with Iraq, please consider signing MoveOn’s petitiion to support an independent investigation into WMD evidence.

Online petitions usually aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, but MoveOn has the right idea. They get real volunteers to print out names and addresses and physically deliver petitions to your local Congressperson. This kind of personal interaction has already been shown to work, and MoveOn has the numbers to make representatives sit up and take notice.

OK, end of plea. Do what you can.

…but who’s counting?

When questioned by Congress, Donald Rumsfeld today upped his estimate of the cost of Iraqi occupation to $3.9 billion per month, double the previous estimates. To put that in perspective, $4 billion dollars would pay the monthly salaries of one million teachers.

Oh, and that doesn’t include reconstruction costs. Of course not.