Reply #5: My letter to Kerry on this (just faxed) [View All]

[yurbud]

August 22, 2005

Sen. John Kerry
US Senate
Washington, DC

Sen. Kerry,

I voted for you for president in 2004 because I wanted to believe that the man who protested the Vietnam War, investigated Iran-Contra and BCCI was still in you somewhere and would make a good president.

Sometimes I see glimmers of that, but your recent email made me wonder if you would be that much better than George W. Bush on the Iraq War and future issues of war and peace.

Of course you say some things that are good, but used to be considered simply common sense and decency for both parties: if you send our troops into combat, properly supply them and take care of the maimed when they return.

What is disturbing is you said we need a BIGGER military. My question, for what?

If the "real" war we are in now is with non-state terrorists, at most that requires intelligence agents, special forces, and some predator drones. Why do we need a Cold War size military unless we face a foe of that size or plan more wars of aggression?

Also disturbing is that you leave out Cindy Sheehan's most important question: what is the noble cause of the war?

As a veteran and someone who lived through the Cold War, you know that Saddam could never have been a meaningful threat to people in the United States.

Even if Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons, and even more improbably, the means to deliver them, why would he ever consider using them on the United States when it would invite not only his own certain death but the destruction of his entire country? Do people sitting on trillions of dollars worth of oil often commit suicide?

During the Cold War we were not attacked by an enemy that thousands of nukes, not a handful. Every country that has these seem to use them as a deterrent to attack with the exception of our ally Pakistan who decided to make them one of their export products.

The Downing Street Minutes have proven that the Bush people knew their case was a lie. The part of the story that is left untold to the American people is the real reasons for the war: getting our hands on Iraq's oil and being in a position to intimidate and invade other oil producing countries as the Grover Norquist-written plan for the occupation outlines, and Jay Garner confirmed on film.

Since you do not publicly outline and attack the real reasons for the war, I can only assume that you agree with them.

We do not have a real democracy as long as our leaders talk to the public like retarded children with fairy tales about boogey men with “weapons of mass destruction” instead our insatiable appetite for oil and the companies that driving our foreign policy to profit from it.

Help us restore our democracy by telling the public the truth and stop talking to us like idiots.