MURDEROUS AFGHAN WAR DOESN'T EXIST IN CONGRESSMAN ROSKAM'S WORLD
May 27, 2011
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Eight US soldiers died in Afghanistan yesterday, Congressman.
They didn't just die; they were blown to bits by two roadside blasts while on foot patrol in a land we have no business waging war upon. Their deaths raise the US death toll in Afghanistan to 1,595, of which 1,237 (78%) died during your four years and five months in Congress. The tour of duty resulting in their deaths was financed by the two billion dollars you authorize weekly in borrowed money to keep our 100,000 pieces of canon fodder in harms way, for no sane or moral or humane or national security reason.
They died without you acknowledging the mere existence of our senseless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya on your Congressional website, www.roskam.house.gov, which doesn't have an issue topic for war; doesn't have an issue topic for Iraq; doesn't have an issue topic for Afghanistan; doesn't have a topic for Libya. The only topic remotely close is "War on Terror". Amazingly, your last posting for it is dated February 3, 2010 and concerns your opposition to relocating Guantanamo detainees to Illinois.
For reasons known only to yourself, our trillion dollar wars of death and destruction simply do not figure in the Congressional face you show to your constituents. Could it be you know full well that over 70% of Americans view the Afghan war as an utter waste of America's military blood and America's dwindling financial treasure? Could it be you are silent because even a fine intellect like you can not construct an argument for continuing this madness?
On the same day those eight brave but doomed soldiers were needlessly denied a chance for a full life, you cast a vote on a referendum to end the Afghan war. The amendment by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) would have called on the administration to begin wrapping up the war and negotiating a settlement that would allow for a pullout. McGovern's amendment lost by just 11 votes, 215 to 204. You, sadly, joined 206 other Republicans and just 8 Democrats to defeat the amendment supported by 178 Democrats and, yes, 26 Republicans, who have come to their senses and are now on record to end the Afghan war that will enter its 11th year this Octorber 7.
In two days we will celebrate Memorial Day. Instead of giving a speech or sending an email to your constituents on how we honor and revere those brave soldiers who gave the last measure of life to defend our freedoms; why don't you spend the day reflecting on why you continue to send another eight or eighty or eight hundred of those soldiers to die for the war lovers and the war profiteers who support your political career.
And if you still believe sending them to die there is worth it, at least have the decency to post your reasons on your website or via an email to your constituents. The souls of the 1,237 heroes who have died in Afghanistan on your watch in Congress deserve nothing less.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District resident
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Eight US soldiers died in Afghanistan yesterday, Congressman.
They didn't just die; they were blown to bits by two roadside blasts while on foot patrol in a land we have no business waging war upon. Their deaths raise the US death toll in Afghanistan to 1,595, of which 1,237 (78%) died during your four years and five months in Congress. The tour of duty resulting in their deaths was financed by the two billion dollars you authorize weekly in borrowed money to keep our 100,000 pieces of canon fodder in harms way, for no sane or moral or humane or national security reason.
They died without you acknowledging the mere existence of our senseless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya on your Congressional website, www.roskam.house.gov, which doesn't have an issue topic for war; doesn't have an issue topic for Iraq; doesn't have an issue topic for Afghanistan; doesn't have a topic for Libya. The only topic remotely close is "War on Terror". Amazingly, your last posting for it is dated February 3, 2010 and concerns your opposition to relocating Guantanamo detainees to Illinois.
For reasons known only to yourself, our trillion dollar wars of death and destruction simply do not figure in the Congressional face you show to your constituents. Could it be you know full well that over 70% of Americans view the Afghan war as an utter waste of America's military blood and America's dwindling financial treasure? Could it be you are silent because even a fine intellect like you can not construct an argument for continuing this madness?
On the same day those eight brave but doomed soldiers were needlessly denied a chance for a full life, you cast a vote on a referendum to end the Afghan war. The amendment by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) would have called on the administration to begin wrapping up the war and negotiating a settlement that would allow for a pullout. McGovern's amendment lost by just 11 votes, 215 to 204. You, sadly, joined 206 other Republicans and just 8 Democrats to defeat the amendment supported by 178 Democrats and, yes, 26 Republicans, who have come to their senses and are now on record to end the Afghan war that will enter its 11th year this Octorber 7.
In two days we will celebrate Memorial Day. Instead of giving a speech or sending an email to your constituents on how we honor and revere those brave soldiers who gave the last measure of life to defend our freedoms; why don't you spend the day reflecting on why you continue to send another eight or eighty or eight hundred of those soldiers to die for the war lovers and the war profiteers who support your political career.
And if you still believe sending them to die there is worth it, at least have the decency to post your reasons on your website or via an email to your constituents. The souls of the 1,237 heroes who have died in Afghanistan on your watch in Congress deserve nothing less.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District resident
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