Reuters, in a story on an ABC News/Washington Post poll, reports: "For the first time, a majority of Americans said the administration 'intentionally misled' the public in going to war."
The following are available for interviews:
NANCY LESSIN, mfso@mfso.org [1], http://www.mfso.org [2]
Lessin is co-founder of Military Families Speak Out. For a list of
their members from around the country available for interviews, see the
group's web page.
CINDY SHEEHAN, scindy121@aol.com [3], http://www.gsfp.org [4],
http://www.truthout.org/do2005/040805C.shtml [5]
Currently in the D.C. area, Sheehan is co-founder of Gold Star
Families for Peace, which is affiliated with MFSO. Her son, Casey, born on
Memorial Day, 1979, was killed in Iraq on Palm Sunday, April 4, 2004.
KELLY DOUGHERTY, kellydough@hotmail.com [6], http://www.ivaw.net [7]
Dougherty is a co-founder of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War.
She was in the Colorado Army National Guard for eight years and was a
military police sergeant for a year in Iraq.
YASIR SHALLAL, yshallal@cox.net [8], http://www.IraqiAmericanAlliance.org [9]
Shallal is an Iraqi-American activist.
JOHN BONIFAZ, DAVID SWANSON, david@davidswanson.org [10],
http://www.AfterDowningStreet.org [11]
Bonifaz and Swanson are two of the co-founders of the
AfterDowningStreet.org coalition. Bonifaz is a constitutional attorney and
author of the book "Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush."
DANIEL ELLSBERG, EllsbergD@cs.com [12], http://www.ellsberg.net [13]
Ellsberg is author of the book "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the
Pentagon Papers."
DAVID BACON, dbacon@igc.org [14], http://www.selvesandothers.org/view1484.html [15]
Bacon is a writer and photojournalist specializing in labor issues.
He was in Basra three weeks ago doing an investigation into the conditions
of Iraqi oil workers. He also attended an Iraqi conference organized to
oppose the privatization of the oil industry.
PHYLLIS BENNIS, Pbennis2@cs.com [16], http://www.ips-dc.org/projects/newinternat.htm [17]
Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
Reporters can also contact AfterDowningStreet.org here. [18]