Roskam's rush to judgement supports illegal, immoral and unconstitutional air strikes in Syria.

My congressman Peter Roskam's (IL-6) constituent email for April 8-14 touts the second US air strikes in a year for unproven use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. That is not surprising since he has supported every illegal, immoral and unconstitutional military action in the Middle East and Africa that has killed innumerable thousands during his 12 years in Congress. At the end of his pitch for senseless war squandering trillions, Roskam reveals his real agenda there: regime change in Syria and "rolling back Russian and Iranian influence in the region." To use Roskam's logic, foreign nations would have had the right to unilaterally bomb the US for use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus that has turned Iraq into a decades long time bomb deforming, if not killing Iraqi babies. Nor will Roskam ever say a single word in opposition to US support of Saudi Arabia's relentless slaughter of Yemenis in neighboring Yemen, or Israel's weekly shooting gallery they've set up at the Israel-Gaza border to mow down Palestinians peacefully protesting the Israeli open air prison in Gaza.

Roskam's selective outrage, which only promotes bombing and shooting peoples targeted for regime change or perpetual servitude, disgraces an America that must promote peace and good will toward all people. The Sixth District deserves better in 2019.