CONGRESSMAN PETER ROSKOM'S OCTOBER, 2009 REPORT CARD ON MIDDLE EAST WARS
November 14, 2009
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Do you ever fully contemplate the enormity of the human toll from our senseless wars in the Middle East that you support to the tune of 400 million dollars daily?
We all know, because the Defense Department cannot cover up American deaths, that as of today, 5,278 American servicemen have died in those wars.
But the Defense Department does minimize publication about the walking and non-walking injured, to deflect attention from the human toll that you folks in the war party choose to ignore.
Fortunately for those of us working to end these wars there is the Veterans for Common Sense, http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/, a nonprofit advocacy group seeking to advance the health and readjustment of returning military personnel. Here is some of their startling fact finding which you, and every Congressman who funds these futile wars, should ponder.
230 service members committed suicide in Iraq and Afghanistan through October 3, 2009.
70,772 service members in Iraq have been wounded or injured due to all causes, hostile and otherwise
13,407 service members in Afghanistan have been wounded or injured due to all causes, hostile and otherwise
Total casualties including dead, wounded or injured in both wars is approaching 90,000
454,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have sought care from the VA since coming home, representing 40% of the total veteran population
Of that 454,000 seeking help, 45 % were diagnosed with a mental health condition and 27% of those had post-traumatic stress disorder.
If you do know full well the scope of this human tragedy, you sure aren’t letting it stop you from authorizing another 400 millions of borrowed dollars daily to add to that staggering human toll.
Sadly, the march toward a hundred thousand American casualties and the millions of foreigners who are dead, injured and forced to flee their homes from the American invader, has never caused you to veer for a moment from the destructive path you so eagerly joined when you entered Congress in January, 2007.
The next time you trumpet your opposition to Big Government programs designed to aid the less privileged folks in America, like the forty-five million who don’t have health insurance, look in the mirror and ask yourself why you keep supporting Big Government criminal war.
Respectfully,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District Resident
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Do you ever fully contemplate the enormity of the human toll from our senseless wars in the Middle East that you support to the tune of 400 million dollars daily?
We all know, because the Defense Department cannot cover up American deaths, that as of today, 5,278 American servicemen have died in those wars.
But the Defense Department does minimize publication about the walking and non-walking injured, to deflect attention from the human toll that you folks in the war party choose to ignore.
Fortunately for those of us working to end these wars there is the Veterans for Common Sense, http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/, a nonprofit advocacy group seeking to advance the health and readjustment of returning military personnel. Here is some of their startling fact finding which you, and every Congressman who funds these futile wars, should ponder.
230 service members committed suicide in Iraq and Afghanistan through October 3, 2009.
70,772 service members in Iraq have been wounded or injured due to all causes, hostile and otherwise
13,407 service members in Afghanistan have been wounded or injured due to all causes, hostile and otherwise
Total casualties including dead, wounded or injured in both wars is approaching 90,000
454,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have sought care from the VA since coming home, representing 40% of the total veteran population
Of that 454,000 seeking help, 45 % were diagnosed with a mental health condition and 27% of those had post-traumatic stress disorder.
If you do know full well the scope of this human tragedy, you sure aren’t letting it stop you from authorizing another 400 millions of borrowed dollars daily to add to that staggering human toll.
Sadly, the march toward a hundred thousand American casualties and the millions of foreigners who are dead, injured and forced to flee their homes from the American invader, has never caused you to veer for a moment from the destructive path you so eagerly joined when you entered Congress in January, 2007.
The next time you trumpet your opposition to Big Government programs designed to aid the less privileged folks in America, like the forty-five million who don’t have health insurance, look in the mirror and ask yourself why you keep supporting Big Government criminal war.
Respectfully,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District Resident
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