To Nancy With All Due Respect…
By David Swanson, Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
Dear Nancy. Cindy asked me to write you a letter and promised she would deliver it. So I picture the two of you in your home over tea as you peruse this and a four-foot stack of similar missives, and I hope mine catches your eye, and I hope there are no more of those annoying poor people out front, or that you’re able to have them arrested quickly and quietly.
I know that there is good in you, Nancy, and I know that you are extremely smart. I can tell by the skill with which you’ve hidden from us that aforementioned good. But I’m concerned about how you will be remembered in history. Specifically, I’m concerned that you may not be remembered at all. If you were the leader who ended the wars, made peace, and impeached criminals, you would be remembered and quite possibly elected president some day. Attempting to impeach a president for an illegal war seemed to work pretty well for Congressman Lincoln.
On Monday, 14 January, Cindy Sheehan and others will be delivering this letter and thousands more like it to Nancy Pelosi. For information on where to send a letter by fax or e-mail – no later than Sunday – go to the Grassroots Action Center.