CONG. PETER ROSKAM'S DECEMBER, 2009 REPORT CARD ON MIDDLE EAST WARS
January 20, 2010
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
You recently completed your third year as IL Sixth District Congressman. For the record you have spent every one of the 1,576,800 minutes of that service with unquestioned support of our self destructive wars in the Middle East.
During those million and a half minutes did you ever take just one to ponder the waste of the nearly half a trillion dollars you authorized to fund these crusades of destruction against the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan?
Did you think for a single minute that one thousand, nine hundred, fifty-six US soldiers died needlessly to fight these wars of conquest under false pretences?
Could you have pondered for at least sixty seconds that lies told to start such wars are criminal acts which Congressmen like you should be clamoring for investigation of, and accountability for the perpetrators?
Was there one minute during which you contemplated the three million innocent casualties and refugees created by our monstrous fireworks of shock and awe; families as beautiful and precious as yours or mine?
Apparently, the borrowed and squandered half trillion, the 1,956 dead soldiers and the three million victims of the wars you support, weren’t worth a single minute of your time that apparently, is better spent blaring warnings about ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and Medicare fraud on your Congressional website. And these bankrupting wars you champion? Not a word on your website since June 3, 2009, when you supported aggressive action against Iran in the Weekly Standard, a publication which bears almost as much guilt for our false war in Iraq as the Bush administration war party cabinet.
Sir, you may serve for many millions of more minutes as IL Sixth District Congressman, but you will never become a truly functioning statesman and humanitarian till you reject the backing the war party has bestowed upon you in return for your lockstep support of their murder and mayhem around the world.
And, it needn’t take a long time to determine the path to redemption for your mis-deeds these past three years when it comes to needless war. Do you have a minute?
Respectfully,
Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn, IL
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
You recently completed your third year as IL Sixth District Congressman. For the record you have spent every one of the 1,576,800 minutes of that service with unquestioned support of our self destructive wars in the Middle East.
During those million and a half minutes did you ever take just one to ponder the waste of the nearly half a trillion dollars you authorized to fund these crusades of destruction against the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan?
Did you think for a single minute that one thousand, nine hundred, fifty-six US soldiers died needlessly to fight these wars of conquest under false pretences?
Could you have pondered for at least sixty seconds that lies told to start such wars are criminal acts which Congressmen like you should be clamoring for investigation of, and accountability for the perpetrators?
Was there one minute during which you contemplated the three million innocent casualties and refugees created by our monstrous fireworks of shock and awe; families as beautiful and precious as yours or mine?
Apparently, the borrowed and squandered half trillion, the 1,956 dead soldiers and the three million victims of the wars you support, weren’t worth a single minute of your time that apparently, is better spent blaring warnings about ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and Medicare fraud on your Congressional website. And these bankrupting wars you champion? Not a word on your website since June 3, 2009, when you supported aggressive action against Iran in the Weekly Standard, a publication which bears almost as much guilt for our false war in Iraq as the Bush administration war party cabinet.
Sir, you may serve for many millions of more minutes as IL Sixth District Congressman, but you will never become a truly functioning statesman and humanitarian till you reject the backing the war party has bestowed upon you in return for your lockstep support of their murder and mayhem around the world.
And, it needn’t take a long time to determine the path to redemption for your mis-deeds these past three years when it comes to needless war. Do you have a minute?
Respectfully,
Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn, IL
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