Flash Activist letter!

Dear Senator X, President Bush has nominated National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Her confirmation hearing presents a golden opportunity for senators to ask her tough questions while she's under oath. Here is a short list of possible questions for Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearing. There are -- no doubt -- many more. * You once said: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use... a hijacked airplane as a missile." How could you assert this knowing that the President received memos warning that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the U.S. and that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles? (12 times mentioned according to PBS report 11/21/04 Bill Moyers et al, then when officially notified, the President spent 23 more days at his Crawford, TX ranch. What , no one's hijacked an airplane before in her world? There's a monument in the ground near here, on the Bronx River Parkway, dedicated to former Israeli P.M. Netanyahu's brother who perished at the raid on hijackers at Entebbe.) * Given that chief White House expert on terrorism Richard Clarke sent you an urgent memo days after you took office warning of the severity of the threat of terrorism, why was terrorism the topic at only two formal meetings of the national security leadership prior to the Sept. 11 attacks? And given Federal operations in the WTC were conceivably attacked prior to 9/11/01, and an emergency center was being built (some think illegally, i.e., a televised "City Club" meeting) for a NYC emergency response, how could it NOT be considered? * Since you and the President assert that it was appropriate to invade Iraq even absent weapons of mass destruction, what other countries fit the criteria for preemptive invasions? Anyone who went to East Anglia University in Great Britain to study anthrax? As the so-called Iraqi woman scientist did? It's in the ponies hay in Antarctica from the Himalayas back in the early 20th, still there according to British royals. Speaking of which, the only "unsolved" victim of anthrax killing, was a Vietnamese-American from the Bronx. Maybe the bomb tonnage of the Vietnam Conflict came home to NYC? I was on Madison Ave. when a surviving doctor and nurse protested the bombing of one of their hospitals many years ago. I urge you to approach the constitutional role of advise and consent with the utmost seriousness and require Ms. Rice to answer these and other difficult questions. I look forward to hearing how you will address this important issue. Sincerely, George J. Myers, Jr. B.A. Anthropology