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This is a letter that I send to my Senator today. If you find it useful, please send it your own. You may need to make a few changes. It's designed in support of House Minority Leader Pelosi.
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Dear Senator Lautenberg,
First, please accept my thanks for carrying our concerns about this current administrations blatant disregard for honesty and integrity directly to the lawmakers during your now famous “Chicken Hawk” speech.
Unfortunately, I believe it’s time once again for you to carry the torch on behalf of your constituency.
Recent reports coming from The Defense Intelligence Agency have concluded that a U.S.-funded arm of Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress has been used for years by Iranian intelligence to pass disinformation to the United States and to collect highly sensitive American secrets.
Do you mean to tell me that our DOD, a department that gets nearly half of every tax dollar generated by our citizens, would not have carefully vetted Ahmed Chalabi’s political associations? Is this government now asking me to believe that after spending years closely associating with their Heir-Apparent to Iraq that he has been a “Double Agent?” all along?
Are we to believe that our intelligence failed so badly that we allowed an Iranian spy to direct our policy decisions in Iraq?
Can it be possible that we empowered this man with tens of millions of dollars and only NOW, after he has spoken out against the Coalitional Provisional Authority, we are able to glean his collusion with Iran?
Can it be possible that the Iranians wanted a US occupied and controlled state directly adjacent to their country?
Senator, this stinks of character assassination; the Bush Administrations CYA technique that is employed when they are faced with (now as a matter of routine), their own policy failure and poor judgment.
Senator, I believe that there are 2 possibilities here – one worse than the other.
The first – The US military and intelligence apparatus has become so inept that it can no longer be trusted to provide any actionable intelligence to this country’s leaders.
This is a distinct possibility. We were not greeted with flowers and thanks, and have resorted to bombing wedding parties in order to provide border security.
The second, however, has a precedent. Again, witness the Standard Operating Procedure of the Bush Administration for dealing with Whistleblowers.
How many great men and women of our government have quickly found themselves marked for character assassination once they fail to “Stay on Message”? What have we seen, CONSISTENLY, every time a former, or even current official, elected or otherwise, takes a stand in opposition to Bush’s policies?
Paul O’Neil, Joe Wilson, Richard Clark, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Tommy Franks, CIA translators, etc. have all been on the receiving end of “You’re either with us, or against us” – we’ve watched it happen.
Chalabi didn’t have a chance. As an Iraqi, wanted by Jordan, flip-flopping on the US, and now the star suspect that mis-lead us to war over WMD’s – Ahmed Chalabi will be destroyed on prime time television to save our administration from yet another mistake in a long list of Pleosian incompetence.
The White House has become master of the White Wash. But their White Wash is finally becoming transparent, and weathered with age and overuse.
If our intelligence is so bad as to let an Iranian Spy dictate policies… If the judgment of our Executive Branch is so bad as to associate with an Iranian Spy…
What then Senator, is the definition of National Security? Where, exactly, are my significant tax dollars going, if not to our DOD? One after another – how can these failure happen?
Frankly, I’m tired of being of being condescended to. I’m tired of the “Deny-Deny, make counter accusations” tactic in order to gain absolution and justification.
I live near McGuire Air force base – friends are dead and gone. Family members are overseas, bereft of their husbands, wives, and children.
The buck must stop – in the US Government. If one man, one international criminal and now “confirmed spy”, can send 800 soldiers and ten thousand civilians to their deaths - what could be next? What will happen when a second 25 year old artillery shell with inert US manufactured Sarin gas is found? What will happen when Israel attacks an Iranian nuclear facility in the name of self-defense?
Please Senator, please. Hold every nefarious accusation, judgment, and petulant act up to scrutiny. Make them MAKE THEIR CASE.
Our country has been reduced to a culture of “Exposing the Truth”. That’s backwards. We shouldn’t have to "expose" truth.
It should be policy.
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