Note out to Senator Reid.
http://reid.senate.gov/
Letter from Nevada residents will have much more impact with him.
Since this was directed specifically from us to him, please do not copy it verbatim, but feel free to use it as the basis or format for your own correspondence. If you copy it, they will think that these are all form letters and will toss them out. As they will probably do, regardless.
"Sir:
I am not one of your constituents, but as you are the Senate Majority leader, you do, in a sense, represent me.
I cannot believe your recent comments that we have lost the war in Iraq. Your vision appears to be myopic and pessimistic, to say the least.
This has given tremendous aid and comfort to our enemies. After all, you have declared our defeat publicly, and our intent to retreat. This is incredible. When the terrorists reach our shores, as they most certainly will, after we surrender and leave them full liberty in Iraq, the blood of innocent US civilians will be on your hands.
Unilaterally announcing our defeat means that thousands of my brothers and hundreds of billions of our tax dollars spent since the defeat of Sadaam have been spent in vain.
Clearly, no one wants to die for a lost cause, or be the last one killed, so I am sure that our brave Soldiers and Marines are demoralized by your comments, and recruiting will suffer for it as well.
What are our allies in this venture to think of us and our alliances? Can we be counted on in the future if the going gets rough?
Are Osama and al Queda correct, that we, as Americans no longer have the stomach for casualties or a protracted conflict?
Has the Democratic Party and our leadership abandoned the brave and bold words of President Kennedy?
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge—and more.
To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom—and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
Sir, today, I am sorry to be a member of a defeated military, as you seem to think it is.
In closing. I would remind you of the words of Cicero:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." - Marcus Tullius Cicero (42 B.C.)
Very Respectfully-
TR"