from sojourners:
Following the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide, “Scooter” Libby, last Friday, we asked you to e-mail your members of Congress, demanding they form an independent commission to investigate whether the Bush administration deliberately misled our nation into war. We believe that truth-telling is a religious and moral value, and that our government must – above all else – have a commitment to truth. The American people need to know whether intelligence information was knowingly manipulated leading up to the war in Iraq. Was the war an honest mistake, or were we deceived?
A bipartisan and independent commission, such as the 9/11 Commission, must be created and empowered to conduct a full investigation that can provide answers.
i respect jim wallis and the goals of sojourners, however this seems like an all out witch hunt. what exactly will the accomplish if we do find out that we were lied to…what will it change? will all of a sudden the war end, will we pull out because of it and leave iraq in shambles to fend for themselves?
i’m not so sure having an independent investigation into whether or not we were lied to under the guise of stopping the war is really going to accomplish anything but stir up more dissension between the parties (although i’m not sure it could get any worse). wallis has said on several occasions: this is not a partisan issue. we need americans across the political spectrum to demand the truth about iraq. my question is this: what will that accomplish other than more divisiveness in an already horribly divided country?
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