Dear Tom,
I don't want to get into a pointless and fruitless debate. However, our
country is in serious trouble, not just because of the Iraq war. Unless
voters look beyond the propaganda used by the government and accept some
basic principles based on truth, we all are going to pay a very high
price. You might reject this warning as personal ravings of a liberal
or of the uninformed. Nevertheless, I strongly suggest you read "The
Demise of the Dollar" by Addison Wiggin to understand the financial
issues. You only need to follow the Iraq war on TV to know enough about
that sorry issue to be very concerned. These are only two of the many
issues you need to understand before you can properly evaluate our
leaders and know where they are taking us all, both conservatives and
liberals.
Everyone wants to trust our president and the government. Everyone
wants to believe that we as a nation are doing the right thing. Many
people want to believe that our affluence will continue and be a
testament to our Christian beliefs. However, what happens when the
leadership leads us away from these goals and lies about their actions?
What happens when the goals of the leadership are different from the
goals of ordinary people? When this happens in a democracy, the leaders
are voted out of office or are impeached. Unfortunately, most people do
not know what is happening because they are blinded by such arguments as
you use below.
Consider the facts.
The reasons Bush used to attack Iraq have been shown to be wrong - no
WMD, no relationship to 9/11, no terrorists in Iraq, and no nuclear
weapons program. After he attacked, the results were not what he
expected - no friendly welcome, no extra oil for our use, and no
increased stability in the region. Because of his ignorance,
insufficient troops were sent in spite of warnings by the generals. As
a result, the country is on the brink of civil war, thousands of our
troops have been killed or injured, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have
been killed, the infrastructure of the country has collapsed, and the
area has become a training ground for more terrorists.
I ask you, how much incompetence are you willing to accept? How much
support do you want to give a government that shows an inability to deal
with reality on a grand scale? How high a price are you willing to pay
to achieve the goals the government is pursuing? Are you willing to
have your loved ones die? Are you willing to have your kids educated in
poorer schools or have no medical care because the money is used to
blowup Iraq? The government says that if we don't do this, we will
experience even worse in the future. What if they are wrong? We were
given the same kind of arguments about why we could not withdraw from
Vietnam - if we did all of Southeast Asia would become communist, the so
called domino effect. This did not happen. We were told that objecting
to the war was giving comfort to the enemy and putting our troops at
risk. We were kicked out not because the antiwar people gave comfort but
because our leaders underestimated the strength and determination of the
North Vietnamese. Over 50,000 of our youth died because our leaders
were wrong that time. How many are you willing to die to prove how
wrong they are this time? How many lies must be told before you withdraw
your trust? I suggest you answer these questions because your future
will depend on your answers.
Regards,
Ed
thomas malloy wrote:
The following paragraphs were sent to me by Grassfire.org . They do a
good job of setting out the other side of the argument.
It is now clear that MoveOn.org and radical peace groups are
using Cindy Sheehan and Crawford, Texas, as their staging
area for a nationwide anti-Bush, anti-war, anti-troops
movement.
Let's be clear -- these groups are using Mrs. Sheehan to
push their radical agenda, undermine our President and
ultimately weaken the war effort and put our troops at
risk.
IMHO, it is a waste of time to discuss this matter. The administration
is politically unable to cut and run, even if they wanted to, and they
don't.
Then there is the other email I received which talked about how there
hasn't been a terrorist attack on America since 9/11. Is this a
coincidence? I don't think so. We're speaking to them in the language
that they understand, force.
