Anti-Bush Campaigns by Move.on + Co.: New Ads in NY Times

Antiwar groups turn their focus to Bush

Friday, June 20 EDT -By Robert Schlesinger, Boston Globe

WASHINGTON -- Not even military victory could silence the antiwar movement.

More than two months since the Pentagon declared major combat operations in Iraq complete, the activist groups that preemptively mobilized to oppose the war continue to fight a rear-guard action to win the peace. Their latest focus: Whether President Bush, in the run-up to the war, misled the country by asserting that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

The Win Without War coalition and MoveOn.org, two of the biggest antiwar groups, kicked off their new campaign yesterday with a full-page ad in the New York Times that labeled Bush a "misleader" and demanded an independent commission to determine the truth about US intelligence on Iraq. "It would be a tragedy if young men and women were sent to die for a lie," the ad concluded.

Organizers say that the groups' members have reacted strongly to the ad, with more than 100,000 people going to MoveOn.org's website to sign up to help and more than $100,000 being raised to support the new campaign.

"This strikes a raw nerve to people involved in our coalition," said Tom Andrews, Win Without War's director and a former Democratic congressman from Maine.

Andrews' former colleagues in Congress have been more reticent. Democrats say privately they are angry at being allegedly misled about what evidence the administration had of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They have been cautious, however, about criticizing the president on foreign policy issues and say there is a possibility that chemical or biological weapons may yet be found. A few members of Congress have privately stated that they may seek a public inquiry into what the administration knew and when.

"One president said `I did not have sex with that woman' and he got impeached," said Representative Jose E. Serrano, Democrat of New York. "Another president lied to the American people, to Congress, and to the United Nations about weapons of mass destruction, bombed a country and killed many people, [and] in the process we lost some of our own brave folks. And he's some sort of hero. What gives?"

... In addition to the 100,000 who backed MoveOn.org's campaign, 71,000 faxed their members of Congress through TrueMajority.org, an organization backed by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. And more than 73,000 people e-mailed Senators Bill Frist of Tennessee, leader of the chamber's Republican majority, and Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic leader, through Working Assets, a long-distance telephone company.

The group plans more print ads, as well as radio and television spots and demonstrations around the country, Andrews said, all aimed at pushing members of Congress to support an independent investigation into whether Bush lied about the causes of the war. The New York Times ad cited five Bush quotes from Sept. 12, 2002, to March 17, 2003, asserting that Iraq had chemical or biological weapons, or both.

"These quotes were used as the basis of an invasion of Iraq," Andrews said...

Robert Schlesinger can be reached at schlesinger@globe.com. Susan Milligan of the Globe staff contributed to this report.

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