If You Wanna End the War and Stuff, You Gotta Sing Loud & Send A Letters Like This To Your Congress Persons!

This is a good pattern, and can even be modified into a “Thank You” letter to one who voted right.
Thanks to my friend Peter, The Big Fisherman, for having the knowledge and eloquence to write it, and the courage and conviction to send it.
Senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln
SD-355 Senate Office Bldg. 1^st & Constitution Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20510-0404

Dear Senator Lincoln:

I was disappointed to see that you voted with the Republicans not to cut off funding for the war in Iraq. I believe that vote was misguided.

Please ask one of your staff members to provide you with a short briefing on the functioning of the Iraqi legislature. All, even President Bush, agree that the death and destruction in Iraq cannot be ended militarily. Political actions and solutions are essential. Our military has achieved all that it was asked to achieve.

The existing Iraq political establishment is locked in a co-dependent relationship with the United States military in Iraq, and it is dysfunctional. It is incapable of taking the political steps essential to reverse the existing downward spiral in the country. Our continued presence only preserves existing dynamics and indeed, provides a catalyst to increase the internal insurrection and terrorist infiltration from outside the country.

Withdrawing troops is directly related to decreasing the violence in that country. The President’s assertions that violence will increase with withdrawal or that withdrawal is “defeat” is simply another administration lie.

An overwhelming majority of Iraqi citizens as well as a majority of the Iraqi parliament want us out of Iraq. The sacrifice we are making in lives and financial resources is not simply wasted; but worse, it feeds the turmoil and destruction.

We need to conduct a strategic withdrawal leaving a limited presence in key areas and a striking capability from bases outside of the country. We need to assure the Iraqi people and neighboring states that our strategic plan is not to continue as long time occupiers in that region.

That, of course, is the unstated strategic goal of this administration. That goal must be publicly abandoned as the policy of this country for there to be any recovery in the Middle East. Please vote to end the war and get out troops out of Iraq.

Sincerely,

Click Here to See The Real Cost of This War. See, Also, Chatham House Report: Iraq On Verge Of Collapse