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As MB is nose-to-grindstone with 16 days before she sits for the September LSAT, I'm posting Joe Trippi's email:

Tonight, after President Bush makes yet another argument for continuing the war in Iraq, John Edwards will speak directly to the American people in a nationwide address on MSNBC.

Our campaign has bought airtime on MSNBC immediately following the President's address at 9 p.m., and John Edwards will challenge the President's remarks with a strong call to the nation to end the war now.

Please watch in that timeframe -- and forward this e-mail to your friends, asking them to watch as well. Each of us has a responsibility to make sure that President Bush and Congress understand that the time for excuses has run out. John Edwards will deliver a strong message tonight on our behalf. It's time to end
this war and bring our troops home.

I plan on listening to the Edwards speech. The one station we can pick up isn't an NBC affiliate. I hope to hear words like "after 9 billion rounds of small arms ammunition fired" but I wasn't asked to do message.

Its John's acid test. I hope he passes it. He has to speak directly to the most involved, he has to remind them of their duty to obey only lawful orders, and remind officers that their oath is to the Constitution, not any passing man, and that they need not wait until January 20th, 2009, for a movement order. Each and every one is free to chose to serve their country in the stockade or the brig, or to continue to serve George Bush and his delusions. He can tell them babykillers will be no more welcome home this time than the last, and it really has come down to that. He can tell them we don't expect them to "save Democracy" by mounting a coup, but we do require them to conduct themselves lawfully, because there is nothing we can do until Bush and Cheney are impeached, or noon on January 20th, 2009.