My Latest Letter to the Editor

Here is a copy of my latest letter published in the Milwaukee Journal. It is a response to the following letter written by a husband and wife team who are constantly being published. Below is their letter and below that is my response.

Shame on these so-called leaders
By; Tom and Margie D’Amato

What war? Now that the liberals have Congress, the war is over. They want to stop funding and leave our troops out to dry and die. The memory of those who served and died will now be forever tarnished, and they will have died for nothing.
Whatever the reason we got in Iraq, we need to win; Sept. 11 will look like kids work if we pull out of Iraq now without winning. Maybe that’s what it’s going to take to wake up Democrats John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Russ Feingold, Al Gore and "do nothing" former President Carter. However, the number who will die in another Sept. 11 will be tenfold that of 2001.
Our enemies are laughing and waiting and at the same time taking comfort in the words of some of our government’s so-called leaders.
It’s as though because of their hatred for President Bush, these lawmakers want America to lose. Some are calling this an illegal war. President Clinton went to Bosnia without Congress or the United Nations, and the liberal press said nothing.
We can win in Iraq. Simply turn the troops loose to go win this thing, and then get the heck out.

Lawmakers are serious about protecting U.S.
By; Justin Loper

The March 1 letter by Tom and Margie D'Amato was a prime example of low the discourse has gone ("Shame on these so-called leaders"). Decorated Vietnam veterans like Chuck Hagel, a conservative Republican, and Jack Murtha supposedly want to "leave our troops out to dry and die" in Iraq, or at least that is what the D'Amatos want people to believe.
It is ludicrous to believe that two men who love their country, enough to fight in a war, are not as serious when it comes to protecting the nation as two guys who supposedly love their country so much they refused to go to war when it was their time.
The D'Amatos also claimed we can win in Iraq. They wrote that we should "simply turn the troops loose to go win this thing, and then get the heck out." Turn our soldiers loose?
What the D'Amatos and so many others are unable to see is that winning means staying. We never had an exit strategy because we didn't plan on exiting. Winning means creating a regime that will let the United States stay in Iraq indefinitely. Winning means staying, not leaving.
And staying really means losing.