Congressman Peter Roskam's June, 2008 Report Card on Iraq War
July 1, 2008
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
At the 75% mark of your freshman Congressional term, it is painful to report you earned a 100% rating supporting our criminal military conquest and occupation of Iraq to the detriment of the American Dream.
In fifty-seven years of following American governance, I have never seen such damage done to the land I cherish as a repository of peace and prosperity. We have lost both because we allowed leaders, many of whom fled from wartime service during our senseless and failed Vietnam War, to fight their war vicariously through the volunteer military they sent on bleed and die in their made up Iraq war.
Nearly four years after its start you came to Congress as a freshman Congressman with a blank slate on Iraq. You campaigned in 2006 as if Iraq did not exist. You correctly offered in a College of DuPage debate you had no strategy to succeed in Iraq, only the vague and meaningless comment of having a goal that it end well so we don’t have to go back. What you should have done like tens of millions of Americans and most of the civilized world did, was to see through the blatant lies, deception, fear tactics and propaganda used by the administration to drag us into this immoral and criminal war.
For all intents and purposes, you are still a blank slate on Iraq. It remains the issue that dares not speak its name. Surf your web site and Iraq has been deleted from the world map. The millions of Iraqis killed, injured or forced to flee the carnage we ignited, and the tens of thousands of American military casualties are not a big deal. But spending three hundred million dollars daily is a big deal to the bi-partisan military-industrial-congressional complex which is sucking life out of our economy as surely as this war is sucking life out of the Iraqis and Americans forced to endure it.
It would take a psychiatrist; make that a team of psychiatrists, to figure out the twisted mentality of leaders who brought this ruin upon America and Iraq. They may escape impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors; they may even escape prosecution for war crimes. But they will never escape the damning verdict of historians and world public opinion.
Sir, why continue to be part of that shameful legacy. You can do wondrous good in the remaining quarter of your freshman term by working to defund this ruinous venture and use the hundreds of billions saved to rebuild our decaying nation.
And if you do, your Congressional cup will runneth over.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
At the 75% mark of your freshman Congressional term, it is painful to report you earned a 100% rating supporting our criminal military conquest and occupation of Iraq to the detriment of the American Dream.
In fifty-seven years of following American governance, I have never seen such damage done to the land I cherish as a repository of peace and prosperity. We have lost both because we allowed leaders, many of whom fled from wartime service during our senseless and failed Vietnam War, to fight their war vicariously through the volunteer military they sent on bleed and die in their made up Iraq war.
Nearly four years after its start you came to Congress as a freshman Congressman with a blank slate on Iraq. You campaigned in 2006 as if Iraq did not exist. You correctly offered in a College of DuPage debate you had no strategy to succeed in Iraq, only the vague and meaningless comment of having a goal that it end well so we don’t have to go back. What you should have done like tens of millions of Americans and most of the civilized world did, was to see through the blatant lies, deception, fear tactics and propaganda used by the administration to drag us into this immoral and criminal war.
For all intents and purposes, you are still a blank slate on Iraq. It remains the issue that dares not speak its name. Surf your web site and Iraq has been deleted from the world map. The millions of Iraqis killed, injured or forced to flee the carnage we ignited, and the tens of thousands of American military casualties are not a big deal. But spending three hundred million dollars daily is a big deal to the bi-partisan military-industrial-congressional complex which is sucking life out of our economy as surely as this war is sucking life out of the Iraqis and Americans forced to endure it.
It would take a psychiatrist; make that a team of psychiatrists, to figure out the twisted mentality of leaders who brought this ruin upon America and Iraq. They may escape impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors; they may even escape prosecution for war crimes. But they will never escape the damning verdict of historians and world public opinion.
Sir, why continue to be part of that shameful legacy. You can do wondrous good in the remaining quarter of your freshman term by working to defund this ruinous venture and use the hundreds of billions saved to rebuild our decaying nation.
And if you do, your Congressional cup will runneth over.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
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