Write This Letter

WP, TH, ANO

Here is an example of a letter to write to your Congress Critter in either House:

Note: adjust it accordingly…don’t cut and paste:

Good Morning XXXXXXXXXX,

I was saddened to hear the news of your vote last week giving your support to the Democrats and Speaker Pelosi against the troop surge in Iraq. This war requires nothing short of a resounding victory, and you along with 16 other Republican Congressmen neglected to see that need. This vote will most likely be one of the most significant votes on your record and your lack of support for your nation in its time of need has already been well noted. Democrats are already staking claim to this district by stating that your small margin of victory, combined with what they perceive as your condescending, aristocratic attitude toward the voters, makes the NY-25 one of their best pickup opportunities in 2008. You were re-elected this past November by a very small margin in the 5th most Democratic district in the nation still held by a Republican. I know that you have proudly and honorably served this district for almost two decades in a fashion quite the opposite to what the Democrats have perceived. This vote, sadly, will be what people will remember in 2008.

As a representative of the family of a MIA Marine whose name is boldly etched in that somber black granite wall in our nation’s capitol, we as a nation are again telling families that their loved ones lives were not worth sacrificing, giving that same effort that our grandparents gave during WW II, which was the very best that this nation could muster. Instead, just as it did during Vietnam, Congress, with your help, has chosen to weaken our nation on the global landscape leaving a wake of uncertainty that will be with us for generations.

When South Vietnam’s President Thieu realized that we had truly abandoned them, he said, “The US has not respected its promises, it is inhumane, it is untrustworthy, it is irresponsible.” We will soon hear similar words from the leaders of Iraq. Speaker Pelosi needed to be told that power and responsibility are not mutually exclusive, instead you helped confirm the opposite.
I have to ask if you truly took into consideration the consequences of defeat in Iraq.

1) What is the plan for the day when the terrorists, now emboldened by this recent vote, bring this war to US soil? Meanwhile your constituents live in the shadow of three nuclear power plants.

2) What is the plan for the day that Iran takes over Iraq and the civilians who entrusted us with the future of their nation are left to fend for themselves just as the South Vietnamese were in 1975 in the wake of very similar legislation?

3) What is the plan for the day when the Kuwaiti oilfields are cut off and oil prices triple?

4) And lastly and most importantly, what is the plan for the day that the world decides that we are no longer a loyal ally for not having followed through on any military engagement since WW II? What is the plan then, Congressman?