Cong. Peter Roskam's January, 2009 Report Card on Middle East Wars
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
I was hoping the first month of your second term would represent a “clean break”.
By “clean break” Congressman, I do not mean the 1996 policy paper published by, among others, three top security advisors to the Bush administration, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and David Wurmser, who advocated remaking the Middle East in accordance with Western values centered around regime change in Iraq. I mean instead, a clean break from your perfect record of support for our made up, senseless and failed wars in the Middle East. Nearly 300 billion dollars squandered in your first term while our nation has imploded from the twin sins of criminal war and criminal economic regulatory neglect.
Besides the endless war crime we ignited in Iraq, with millions dead, wounded or fled from their homes, we are now broke, and rotting from the inside out. We are bereft of good manufacturing jobs. The vital infrastructure required to support those jobs languishes from eight years of neglect orchestrated by your party with the help of many Democrats. We have a flat lined credit market preventing investment in businesses, home building, car purchases, just about everything that is that necessary for a thriving economy. Fifty million have no medical insurance, and hundreds of billions have been doled out to failed Wall Street firms so they can buy new corporate jets and hand out billions in bonuses to reward that failure.
You started your second term with two excellent courses of positive change to embrace. You could have concluded that four hundred million spent daily on needless and failed wars could be better spent salvaging what’s left of our shattered economy. You could also have supported a stimulus package designed, not to give hundreds of billions to Wall Street fat cats with no strings attached to salvage their careers, but to actually put average folks back to work.
What, pray tell, did you do?
You continued, virtually without comment, to support the failed warfare which is destroying our greatness and you voted against the President’s stimulus package to champion instead the endless tax cuts that energize your sixty percent voting majority in the Sixth District. Sir, we tried endless tax cuts for eight long years under your economic philosophy and that economic philosophy is as bankrupt as our once great nation is. The US has to borrow money for those tax cuts, Congressman, to be paid back with interest by your children and my children. That is not only unfair to their generation, it is lunacy.
Well into my seventh decade, I see nothing but decline in store for America from those ruinous policies. Our slender thread of hope consists of an administration committed to ending the Iraq war and implementing the stimulus program your party voted against with 100 percent unanimity. The picture that congers up is Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
Sir, heading into the second month of your second term, you need to ask yourself:
What does it profit a Congressman to gain a lifetime seat in the House supporting
criminal war and ruinous economic policies when, in the end, you only really gain a
crumbling House of Cards?
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
6th District Resident
Glen Ellyn, IL
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
I was hoping the first month of your second term would represent a “clean break”.
By “clean break” Congressman, I do not mean the 1996 policy paper published by, among others, three top security advisors to the Bush administration, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and David Wurmser, who advocated remaking the Middle East in accordance with Western values centered around regime change in Iraq. I mean instead, a clean break from your perfect record of support for our made up, senseless and failed wars in the Middle East. Nearly 300 billion dollars squandered in your first term while our nation has imploded from the twin sins of criminal war and criminal economic regulatory neglect.
Besides the endless war crime we ignited in Iraq, with millions dead, wounded or fled from their homes, we are now broke, and rotting from the inside out. We are bereft of good manufacturing jobs. The vital infrastructure required to support those jobs languishes from eight years of neglect orchestrated by your party with the help of many Democrats. We have a flat lined credit market preventing investment in businesses, home building, car purchases, just about everything that is that necessary for a thriving economy. Fifty million have no medical insurance, and hundreds of billions have been doled out to failed Wall Street firms so they can buy new corporate jets and hand out billions in bonuses to reward that failure.
You started your second term with two excellent courses of positive change to embrace. You could have concluded that four hundred million spent daily on needless and failed wars could be better spent salvaging what’s left of our shattered economy. You could also have supported a stimulus package designed, not to give hundreds of billions to Wall Street fat cats with no strings attached to salvage their careers, but to actually put average folks back to work.
What, pray tell, did you do?
You continued, virtually without comment, to support the failed warfare which is destroying our greatness and you voted against the President’s stimulus package to champion instead the endless tax cuts that energize your sixty percent voting majority in the Sixth District. Sir, we tried endless tax cuts for eight long years under your economic philosophy and that economic philosophy is as bankrupt as our once great nation is. The US has to borrow money for those tax cuts, Congressman, to be paid back with interest by your children and my children. That is not only unfair to their generation, it is lunacy.
Well into my seventh decade, I see nothing but decline in store for America from those ruinous policies. Our slender thread of hope consists of an administration committed to ending the Iraq war and implementing the stimulus program your party voted against with 100 percent unanimity. The picture that congers up is Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
Sir, heading into the second month of your second term, you need to ask yourself:
What does it profit a Congressman to gain a lifetime seat in the House supporting
criminal war and ruinous economic policies when, in the end, you only really gain a
crumbling House of Cards?
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
6th District Resident
Glen Ellyn, IL
posted by Walt Zlotow at 6:01 PM
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