Dear Senator Kerry

[serryjw]

I wanted to thank you for what you did yesterday. Democrats did not prevail but you were on the side of the angels and don’t forget it. I always believed the invasion was wrong and unnecessary and ‘staying the course’ is even worse’ I’m sorry it has taken the lose of 2512 American kids for the majority of the country to catch up.
Please keep on fighting. When in doubt…please remember this, How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a (continued) mistake.
Please read this (quote)
Some things you need to know before the world ends

National Public Radio foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, serving in NPR's Baghdad bureau, met earlier this month with a senior Shiite cleric, a man who was described in the NPR report as "a moderate" and as a person trying to lead his Shiite followers into practicing peace and reconciliation. He had been jailed by Saddam Hussein and forced into exile. Jenkins asked him: "What would you think if you had to go back to Saddam Hussein?" The cleric replied that he'd "rather see Iraq under Saddam Hussein than the way it is now."<1>
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Loss of a functioning educational system. A 2005 UN study revealed that 84% of the higher education establishments have been "destroyed, damaged and robbed".
The intellectual stock has been further depleted as many thousands of academics and other professionals have fled abroad or have been mysteriously kidnapped or assassinated in Iraq; hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, other Iraqis, most of them from the vital, educated middle class, have left for Jordan, Syria or Egypt, many after receiving death threats. "Now I am isolated," said a middle-class Sunni Arab, who decided to leave. "I have no government. I have no protection from the government. Anyone can come to my house, take me, kill me and throw me in the trash."<2>
Loss of a functioning health care system. And loss of the public's health. Deadly infections including typhoid and tuberculosis are rampaging through the country. Iraq's network of hospitals and health centers, once admired throughout the Middle East, has been severely damaged by the war and looting.
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[_dynamicdems]

1. Thank you for posting this.

Thank you for your kind words of support for the senator.

I knew it would get ugly, but I wasn't really prepared.

It has been so difficult to watch and listen to all the attacks on Senator Kerry. He's done the right thing once again and is paying a tremendous price. You and I both know that he did what his conscience told him to do, but both sides are now criticizing his judgement and his motives. It's like a feeding frenzy.

I'm hurt beyond words by what our Democrats have done to Senator Kerry. They hung him out to dry because they are cowardly and jealous. That's the bottom line. Their self-interest timidness makes me sick. People are dying in Iraq and they worry about how their positions will "play" in the media.

How can the senator can be so strong? How can his family stand the lies? This has nearly ripped my heart out. I'm so damn depressed about people and human nature. When someone stands up for what is right, why does this always have to happen? What have we become?

If there are any angels left and if they are watching, they are shaking their heads. The blood still flows in Iraq. The greed still prevails in Washington. And we still sacrifice those who try to help us.

Are we worth saving?

[blm]

3. Kerry's used to it. He shouldn't HAVE to be but he is.

Kerry was treated WAY worse by the Repubs and other Dems in the 80s and early 90's. He hung tough and still keeps fighting. I doubt many lawmakers can show the same mettle even under lesser heat.

[ginnyinWI]

2. kickin for the Saturday crowd. n/t

[emulatorloo]

4. kicking n/t