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by Frank James
The fact that the Bush Administration is down to its last few months now isn’t stopping some liberal groups from calling for the removal of one of its best-known faces–Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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They want her gone because of recent reports that as the president’s National Security Adviser she was involved in White House meetings with other senior officials who decided what harsh interrogation techniques, which many people also call torture, were to be used on al Qaeda suspects.
This Condimustgo.com campaign would have zero chance of accomplishing its end, one would think. Rice is extremely loyal to the president and he to her.
But at least the people behind it have the satisfaction of knowing that in about nine months they will get their wish.Here’s what they say in their press release:
Washington– TrueMajority.org, Brave New Films, and Democracy for America are launching CondiMustGo.com and a new television ad campaign calling for the resignation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. This week Americans were outraged by the news that Condoleezza Rice personally oversaw meetings where top Bush administration officials selected specific torture techniques.
The new site CondiMustGo.com will feature a petition demanding Secretary Rice’s resignation and a new video by Brave New Films documenting her involvement in torture and how she lied to Congress and the nation. The petition reads, “America will not stand for a Secretary of State who approved torture and then misled Congress. We call on the Presidential candidates to ask Secretary of State Rice to resign.”
TrueMajority.org, Brave New Films, and Democracy for America announced the next step in the grassroots pressure campaign: a television ad to air Wednesday night in Pennsylvania around the presidential debate. The ad, produced by Brave New Films and paid for by TrueMajority.org members outraged by Rice’s role in authorizing torture, seeks to force discussion of this issue to the top of the public agenda.
“Condoleezza Rice helped decide how to torture people, that’s the bottom line” said TrueMajority.org Online Director Matt Holland. “As Secretary of State, she is our country’s face to the world, and now that the world knows that she spends her time in closed rooms personally planning the abuse of prisoners, we can’t show our face.”
“Secretary Rice’s direct involvement is an embarrassment to our nation,” said Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America. “Her shameful tenure as Secretary of State must come to an end.”
“The very idea of a so-called Secretary of State planning torture gives Orwell a bad name. It is time to end this shameless and un-American abuse of power,” said Robert Greenwald, President of Brave New Films.