Let your voice be heard

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SUPER G
SUPER G
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PLEASE STOP STAR WARS!!!!!!


If They Don't Work, Don't Buy More of Them!

Dear Friends,

PLEASE take 3 minutes to read this and take action...

The Pentagon has already bought 30 "interceptor" missiles that
don't work. Click here to stop the administration from wasting
tax dollars on more of these lemons.

Under the cover of the war on terrorism, President Bush wants
to spend billions of dollars on the "Star Wars" missile system.
It was a bad idea when the project started two decades ago, and
it's never worked yet.

Could it ever work? Nobody knows. What we do know is we've
already bought 30 "interceptor" missiles and in the last two
tests they couldn't even get off the ground, much less hit an
incoming target. Now the Pentagon wants to buy more of these
lemons.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) has introduced an amendment to cut the
money for the extra missiles and spend it instead on nuclear
nonproliferation programs. These are the kinds of proven
programs that keep nuclear weapons out of our enemies' hands in
the first place.

Tell your senators you agree with Senator Levin and that they
should too. To urge them to back his amendment, you can just
click "Reply" and then "Send" in your e-mail program. Better
yet, to add your own words to the message, click here:
action.truemajority.org/campai...tarWars

If you aren't yet a TrueMajority member, you can still send the
message:
action.truemajority.org/campai...tarWars

Then please take a moment to forward this to anyone you think
might want to really help protect our nation from a nuclear
attack.

Watching Washington for you,
Darcy Scott Martin

Background on Star Wars:
America's taxpayers have already sunk $130 billion into this
program (more than we have spent on cancer research), with
nothing to show for it. Thomas Christie, director of the
Pentagon's testing office, has admitted to Congress that there
is no way to determine whether the system will work.

To learn more about Star Wars, go to
www.clw.org/archive/oldc...s/86_10.html.

To see how the money spent on Star Wars could be invested in
human needs programs in your community, go to
database.nationalpriorities.org/cg...P.w
oa/wa/tradeoff
.
__________________________________________________________

Here's a sample of the message we'll send to your senators (be
sure to customize it with your own words by clicking here).

Dear (we'll insert your senator's name here):

The budget deficit is out of control, the war in Iraq is
worsening, and critical humanitarian programs are being cut.
Nonetheless, President Bush wants buy more "Star Wars" missiles
before the 30 we already have even work.

Please support Sen. Levin's amendment to the defense
authorization bill, which would drop the funding for those
extra untested missiles and spend the money on nonproliferation
programs. That will really make our nation safer.

Sincerely,
(we'll add your name and address here)
__________________________________________________________

Thanks!
- SUPER G , posted 07/26/05

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