CONGRESSMAN PETER ROSKAM JULY, 2008 REPORT CARD ON IRAQ WAR
August 7, 2008
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Every month I write you with what I term a report card on your Iraq war record. And every month I lament the fact that you continue to not only fund this immoral, criminal war with 300 million dollars of our precious treasure daily, but you support the war without hesitation or reservation. You also avoid discussing it as much as possible because you know how toxic it is to the majority of Americans who have no difficulty recognizing its fraudulent, needless character. Checking your House website today I still find not a single mention of this war devised by bullies who have no problem causing millions of casualties and refugees in Iraq besides the tens of thousands of needless American casualties.
Please do not make the mistake of interpreting this as a partisan communication. As one who has believed for nearly half a century the need to call our elected representatives to account for grievous mistakes, I also write my two Democratic Senators, Dick Durbin and Barack Obama monthly, imploring them to cut funding for this war for all but the safe return of our soldiers, launch a bipartisan investigation of how we were led to this abominable war of conquest, and to punish those responsible.
I commend both that at least they opposed this exercise in self destruction from the get-go; Durbin by voting against it in the Senate and Obama speaking out publicly against going to war as an Illinois State Senator. I remind them that opposing a war is easy; anyone can do that standing on their head. The hard part is voting to defund it. The courageous part is demanding an investigation of the misfeasance and malfeasance that launched it. The noble part is bringing the wrongdoers to account.
Durbin and Obama get no slack from this registered Democrat and Dupage County Precinct Committeeman because opposing unjust war transcends party. It is not a question of Republican versus Democrat, progressive versus conservative, hawk versus dove. It’s a question of right versus wrong, humanity versus wanton destruction, sanity versus madness.
Sadly, you are AWOL from the great moral debate about this war that should be occurring in every Congressional and Senate office in this land. You’ve done the political calculus that enough voters either support criminal war or feel powerless to reverse America’s self-destructive war policies, to remain in office. Guess what? That is exactly the calculus the administration war cabinet exercised to use lies, deception, fear tactics and thuggery to launch their war of choice in the first place.
Sir, that is not good company to be keeping. Pretend all you wish that a reduction in violence justifies a war of choice that violates every precept of what a free, democratic nation should stand for and how it should conduct itself. As long as you remain under the spell of the war party, ignoring overwhelming evidence to justify your defection, we patriots of the Sixth District will continue to petition you to do better.
Yes, you can.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Every month I write you with what I term a report card on your Iraq war record. And every month I lament the fact that you continue to not only fund this immoral, criminal war with 300 million dollars of our precious treasure daily, but you support the war without hesitation or reservation. You also avoid discussing it as much as possible because you know how toxic it is to the majority of Americans who have no difficulty recognizing its fraudulent, needless character. Checking your House website today I still find not a single mention of this war devised by bullies who have no problem causing millions of casualties and refugees in Iraq besides the tens of thousands of needless American casualties.
Please do not make the mistake of interpreting this as a partisan communication. As one who has believed for nearly half a century the need to call our elected representatives to account for grievous mistakes, I also write my two Democratic Senators, Dick Durbin and Barack Obama monthly, imploring them to cut funding for this war for all but the safe return of our soldiers, launch a bipartisan investigation of how we were led to this abominable war of conquest, and to punish those responsible.
I commend both that at least they opposed this exercise in self destruction from the get-go; Durbin by voting against it in the Senate and Obama speaking out publicly against going to war as an Illinois State Senator. I remind them that opposing a war is easy; anyone can do that standing on their head. The hard part is voting to defund it. The courageous part is demanding an investigation of the misfeasance and malfeasance that launched it. The noble part is bringing the wrongdoers to account.
Durbin and Obama get no slack from this registered Democrat and Dupage County Precinct Committeeman because opposing unjust war transcends party. It is not a question of Republican versus Democrat, progressive versus conservative, hawk versus dove. It’s a question of right versus wrong, humanity versus wanton destruction, sanity versus madness.
Sadly, you are AWOL from the great moral debate about this war that should be occurring in every Congressional and Senate office in this land. You’ve done the political calculus that enough voters either support criminal war or feel powerless to reverse America’s self-destructive war policies, to remain in office. Guess what? That is exactly the calculus the administration war cabinet exercised to use lies, deception, fear tactics and thuggery to launch their war of choice in the first place.
Sir, that is not good company to be keeping. Pretend all you wish that a reduction in violence justifies a war of choice that violates every precept of what a free, democratic nation should stand for and how it should conduct itself. As long as you remain under the spell of the war party, ignoring overwhelming evidence to justify your defection, we patriots of the Sixth District will continue to petition you to do better.
Yes, you can.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
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