LEAVE ON A HIGH NOTE
As a Sixth District constituent of retiring Congressman Henry Hyde, I am saddened how he is tarnishing his legacy in the twilight of his 32 year congressional career.
He does this by his blind lockstep support of our murderous and failed war in Iraq. Every month I remind him through his website of the number of our brave but deceived soldiers who his president, his party, indeed, he has sent to their doom simply to avoid admitting the truth about the lies and deception that launched this war of choice.
Rep. Hyde, like the president and his war cabinet, knows full well the enormity of our unfolding catastrophe in Iraq. But to avoid their day of reckoning, they continue the charade that the war is a just cause that can be won if only we “stay the course”. This is the essence of the canned “talking points” response I receive from him each month.
To demonstrate the disconnect Rep. Hyde has to the Iraq war, he does not even have an issue topic on his web site for it. The closest one is “Defense/Homeland Security”. The only connection one can make is that the Iraq war is degrading our ability to defend ourselves and reducing homeland security.
Rep. Hyde still has time to leave office with honor. He should join his courageous colleague John Murtha, (Dem. PA), who abandoned his support of the war when he learned the truth about its utter failure. Murtha now speaks tirelessly about the need to stop the senseless slaughter of our soldiers in a lost cause.
The truth sometimes hurts, but not nearly as much as loss of life and limb so your political leaders can avoid having to tell it.
Originally published in Glen Ellyn Sun, November 10, 2006
He does this by his blind lockstep support of our murderous and failed war in Iraq. Every month I remind him through his website of the number of our brave but deceived soldiers who his president, his party, indeed, he has sent to their doom simply to avoid admitting the truth about the lies and deception that launched this war of choice.
Rep. Hyde, like the president and his war cabinet, knows full well the enormity of our unfolding catastrophe in Iraq. But to avoid their day of reckoning, they continue the charade that the war is a just cause that can be won if only we “stay the course”. This is the essence of the canned “talking points” response I receive from him each month.
To demonstrate the disconnect Rep. Hyde has to the Iraq war, he does not even have an issue topic on his web site for it. The closest one is “Defense/Homeland Security”. The only connection one can make is that the Iraq war is degrading our ability to defend ourselves and reducing homeland security.
Rep. Hyde still has time to leave office with honor. He should join his courageous colleague John Murtha, (Dem. PA), who abandoned his support of the war when he learned the truth about its utter failure. Murtha now speaks tirelessly about the need to stop the senseless slaughter of our soldiers in a lost cause.
The truth sometimes hurts, but not nearly as much as loss of life and limb so your political leaders can avoid having to tell it.
Originally published in Glen Ellyn Sun, November 10, 2006
posted by Walt Zlotow at 5:40 PM
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