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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Interesting read aside from the jab at
"progressives". Perhaps she is a bit careless.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Certainly the Democrat party was the historical war
party.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=note_title><SPAN>My July 4th Letter to Michael
Steele</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
<DIV class=byline> Today at 12:35am</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Mr. Steele: <BR><BR>I applaud your extraordinary courage in thinking
the unthinkable and speaking the unspeakable relative to the futility of the war
in Afghanistan. Many have left the GOP because of its viral neocon commitment to
endless and murderous foreign interventions. I no longer vote Republican but 3rd
party. <BR><BR>History teaches us that it was the progressives and the Democrats
who were addicted to wars of empire. Democrat Woodrow Wilson got us into WW I,
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt got us into WW II, Democrat Harry Truman got us
into the Korean War, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson got us into the Vietnam War and
Democrat Bill Clinton got us into the Balkan Wars. According to www.abmc.gov,
35,473 Americans are dead/missing from WW I, 405,399 Americans are dead from WW
II, 54,246 Americans are dead from the Korean War and 58,178 Americans are dead
from the Vietnam War. That’s a grand total of 553,296 dead Americans from
Democratic wars. <BR><BR>At a trillion bucks a year, our insane foreign policy
has bankrupted the nation, destroyed our economy, assaulted our civil liberties,
trashed the Constitution and has churned a once peaceful and prosperous Pax
Americana into Pox Americana. It’s definitely time to focus the foreign policy
debate on legitimate national defense needs vs. non-stop interventionism. The
American people are sick to death of the wars and it’s time for the Republican
Party to get back to its historical roots of peace by following the foreign
policy advice of our founders and rejecting war unless constitutionally declared
by Congress. <BR><BR>I would hope that you grow even more courageous and condemn
all of our interventions and wars as offensive to our Constitution, inconsistent
with the principles of liberty and morally repugnant. America is desperate for
political leadership that will restore Pax Americana, Liberty and Prosperity.
It’s July 4th and our founders who declared “we mutually pledge to each other
our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor” must be rolling over in their
graves at the horrors inflicted upon a once free and prospering people by
ignoble men and women with no honor and who mockingly spat upon all that was
sacrificed to create the greatest free nation in all of human existence.
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