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2004-09-14 - 11:26 a.m.

RALPH NADER'S HAND-PICKED ADVISORS FROM 2000 URGE SWING STATE SUPPORT FOR KERRY TO OUST BUSH

Contact: info@Vote2StopBush.org

Four years ago this month, Ralph Nader convened news conferences in several cities to unveil his personally-selected "Nader 2000 Citizens Committee" of prominent endorsers: "I'm distinctly honored," Nader said at the time, "by the support of the hundred people in this country whose record of social justice in the past stands on its own."

Today, more than 70 members of Nader's 2000 Citizens Committee have come together to issue a statement that urges "support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states" because "removing George W. Bush from office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election."

Signers of the statement include Noam Chomsky, Ben Cohen, Phil Donahue, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Cornel West and Howard Zinn.

The entire list can be viewed at http://www.vote2stopbush.com The 1-paragraph statement and the list of signers will be aggressively circulated right up to election day to reach as many progressive or disaffected voters in swing states as possible. This effort is not coordinated in any way with the Kerry Campaign or the Democratic Party.

The statement reads as follows:

Nader 2000 Leaders United To Defeat Bush

We, the undersigned, were selected by Ralph Nader to be members of his 113-person national "Nader 2000 Citizens Committee." This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all "swing states," even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's policies on Iraq and other issues. For people seeking progressive social change in the United States, removing George W. Bush from office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election. Progressive votes for John Kerry in swing states may prove decisive in attaining this vital goal.

Signers endorse this statement as individuals, not as representatives of any group. A frequently updated list of swing states is posted at www.swing04.com.

2004-09-11 - 12:00 p.m.

Kennedy: "No president in America's history has done more damage to our country and our security than George W. Bush."

In this article in the Washington Post by Helen Dewar Washington Post Staff Writer, Senator Ted Kennedy, rips the Bush Adminstration policies on Iraq:

In a scathing attack on President Bush's handling of Iraq, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) yesterday accused the administration of "arrogant ideological incompetence" and said no president has "done more damage to our country and our security" than Bush

Kennedy's speech to the Senate -- the latest in a series of attacks on Bush's Iraq policy -- came a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony about the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, which he described as "just one part of a much larger failure" by the administration.

"Because of the Bush administration's arrogant ideological incompetence and its bizarre 'mission accomplished' mentality, our troops and our intelligence officers and our diplomats had neither the resources nor the guidance needed to deal with the worsening conditions that steadily began to overwhelm them and continue to do so," Kennedy said.

"It is preposterous for the administration to pretend that the war in Iraq has made America safer," he added. "No president in America's history has done more damage to our country and our security than George W. Bush."

Kennedy said the administration sent too few troops to Iraq, with insufficient training or body armor, to carry out their occupation duties and underestimated the extent of the anti-occupation insurgency. "Simply put, the civilians at the Pentagon did not anticipate or prepare for the insurgent fighting that occurred, despite the pre-war warnings from military leaders," he said.

Kennedy, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said reports on the Abu Ghraib scandal demonstrated serious leadership failures that are not being pursued. Instead, he said, the administration "continued to pour out statements that were completely at odds with the facts," including claims that only a few members of the U.S. military were involved in the abuses.

He accused Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of misleading Congress and the public "when he said that the leadership had acted swiftly to address the abuses, when in fact they allowed abuses to continue and allowed the situation to fester."

Go here read to read Senator Kennedy's whole tough speech.

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