Honoring Representative Barbara Lee -- the Lone Voice of Conscience

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Sun Sep 16 10:56:47 PDT 2001


Perhaps you should tell Lee that you also think that war and dead soldiers from her district would be a good thing for the revo too--just in case she gets disheartened.

At 11:10 AM 9/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>September 15, 2001
>
>The Honorable Barbara Lee
>U.S. House of Representatives
>426 Cannon House Office Building
>Washington, DC 20515
>
>Dear Representative Lee:
>
>The Student International Forum, the Columbus Campaign for Arms Control,
>the Progressive Peace Coalition, and the OSU Committee for Justice in
>Palestine in Columbus, Ohio wish to thank you for your courage to stand up
>firmly against the resolution to authorize U.S. military action to respond
>to the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, as you also
>rightly opposed the use of American troops in Serbia in 1998. We, too,
>are "convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of
>international terrorism against the United States," as you put it in your
>eloquent plea against war. You will be remembered and honored as the lone
>voice of conscience in U.S. Congress. History will prove the truth of
>your insight.
>
>Let us work together to end the war as soon as possible.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi
>Department of English
>Ohio State University
><furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>



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