As you know, a tragedy occurred Wednesday when the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis. We at Impeach for Peace want to extend our condolences to the victims involved and their families.

Impeach for Peace organizers have struggled with how our organization should respond now that President Bush is planning to visit Minneapolis on Saturday.

We don't want to appear as if we are using this tragedy to our political advantage, nor do we wish for Bush to do so. What we've decided is that we're going to encourage citizens of Minneapolis to protest with the message, "Bridges not Bombs."

We have decided to exclude the concept of impeachment from this protest so as not to disrespect the seriousness of the tragedy with what many see as a partisan issue.

While Impeach for Peace doesn't blame Bush for this specific tragedy, we do see this event as being endemic of a larger failure of priorities. This administration has put the country's resources into unjustified military actions instead of investing in our national infrastructure.

Bush will be speaking at the I-35 Bridge on Saturday at .

We don't have the specific location yet, but needed to get this email out as soon as possible since it takes two days to send an email to as many people as we have on our email list.

Please visit this webpage to get the specific location as we get closer to the event, and please forward this to all your friends:

http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=3006