No surprise here....for $162 Billion more of our tax dollars for war purpose.

Question: Is Pelosi sucking it up to Bush now REALLY BIG as her PLAY to Keep her SEAT from contender Golub?  Buying/trading for "Diebold" Fixed Election favors, in other words?

So don't shake your head at me; you KNOW it is NOT a first.

CODEPINK <codepink@mail.democracyinaction.org> wrote:

Donate | Calendar | Local Groups | Store

May 9, 2008 Dear Joy, Outside Speaker Pelosi's DC office on Thursday, we found a disconcerting site: the Congresswoman in bed with George Bush! It seems the two of them, behind closed doors, have been colluding to guarantee $162 billion more of our tax dollars for war! With Mother's Days approaching, we appealed to the Speaker as a mother. We asked her to please stop funding war and destruction, and instead support our family needs here at home and the Iraqi refugees who are struggling to survive. Click here to tell Speaker Pelosi to get out of bed with Bush, to stop funding this disastrous war, and to help the refugees instead! You, too, can do something for Mother's Day to help the Iraqi women whose lives have been shattered by the US occupation. When you donate today, 100% of the proceeds will go toward the Collateral Repair Project, a grassroots movement working with CODEPINK to address the catastrophic displacement of the five million Iraqis who had to leave their homes and communities because of violence and instability. CRP offers food, education, job training and other vital services to refugees. $25 will feed one internally displaced person in Iraq for one month $100 will feed a family of five living in Iraq for one month $250-500 will support small women-based microprojects to promote economic self-sufficiency for women in Jordan $1,500 will launch the Najaf sewing training project, training 50+ women sewing/embroidery. They will be able to make a small living and clothe their families. CODEPINK Co-founder Medea Benjamin recently returned from Jordan and Syria where she witnessed firsthand the urgent needs of Iraqi women. Layla Atiya is a 50-year-old woman from Baghdad whom I met outside the UN food distribution center in Damascus. She was a Shia who married a Sunni, something very common pre-invasion. They had a large family-eight children-but Layla's husband worked hard as a mechanic and managed to provide a decent life for his family. In March 2005, he was kidnapped by Shia militias trying to rid the neighborhood of Sunnis. Ten days later, his body was found dumped in a ditch, riddled with drill holes from torture. A week later, masked men came and took away her oldest son. Hysterical, she packed up the seven remaining children-ages 2-16-and fled to Syria. Layla receives $120 a month from the UN, but it doesn't even cover her rent. She can't afford to send her children to school. "I can barely feed my children, much less provide them with a decent future," she cried. "What will become of us?" This Mother's Day, please join CODEPINK in helping Iraqi mothers. If you donate in your mother's name or the name of a mother you love, we will send her a beautiful E-card to acknowledge your generous gift. With love for the mothers all over the world, Alicia, Dana, Desiree, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Jodie, Liz, Medea, Nancy, Rae, and Tighe p.s. To learn more about Medea's experiences in Jordan and Syria, read her blogs here.