My Letter To The President - Democratic Underground

CrackpotAmerica

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Fri Aug-05-05 11:18 PM
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My Letter To The President

Hello, everyone.

I posted this earlier, but I thought that since I can now make my own threads, I would post it again.

The following is a letter I sent to the White House. I would like to encourage all of you to copy and paste it into an email and send it to:

comments@whitehouse.gov

and

president@whitehouse.gov

OR, if you share my anger at this man's reckless disregard for the moral of the American Soldier, I encourage you to put it in your own words and send it to the addresses above.

Thanks!
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Dear Mr. President,

Briefly, I can not believe that you have the gall to take a vacation at this time. How dare you? How dare you feel it just to scamper off to Texas, Maine, or wherever the hell you go while over 150,000 men and women are risking their lives in a war that was unscrupulously waged by you and your constituency? On this day and of this mass of forced participants, there are 1821 men and women who will never again have the opportunity to vacation, nor enjoy their families or friends, nor take a single breath, and it astonishes me to witness that you feel you have worked hard enough to take a single moment of leisure.

Did you at any recent time stop and think about the message you would send to these people by leaving the White House for your own relaxation? Have you ever realized that while you wear a flag on your expensive lapel, there is a man or woman with the same flag, mortally wounded and staring up at his or her rescuer, who is mustering every bit of strength and courage to keep this person alive? Have you ever thought about the contaminated water a child must drink or the rationed slop a child must eat for his or her very survival as you eat your steak after what you felt was a "hard day?" The fact is, sir, you are responsible for every last one of these people whether you like it or not. You deserve no respite until these glorious people have theirs. You think about that as you relax on your pool side lounger pondering what you can think to say to make yourself look like you are on a working vacation.

I would suggest that you return to your office at once for at the very least the dignity of the soldier that you have sent who will lose his or her ultimate possession tomorrow or the next day. The alternative is reprehensible. I remind you of Louis XIV. You deserve no Versailles as he did not. If after this letter, you still feel that you are deserving of a vacation; then I must say that you, sir are as despicable as I have always believed you to be.

So please, wont you do what is right for once in your life and return to your office? You have not earned your vacation and I refuse to sit by and watch you enjoy it without my commenting on how utterly wrong it is.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME HERE