June is bustin’ out all over…

It’s springtime: the season when a man’s fancy turns to blogging. Looks like Gary and I have been burning up the keyboard of late. Here’s my email to our conservative anti-Iraq respresentative Jimmy Duncan:

I agree with you that the Iraq War has been a national folly that disctracts us from the real war on terror and has run up a record national debt.

I would urge you to work with Congressman Murtha and develop legislation to get us out. You have written, “The so-called neo-con architects of this unnecessary war have led people down a primrose path in the opposite direction of and very much against every traditional conservative position. ”

Former Marine Jack Murtha said over a year ago that “The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion. The American public is way ahead of us. The United States and coalition troops have done all they can in Iraq, but it is time for a change in direction.”

Murtha describes a plan that involves what he calls the “‘three R’s;’ to redeploy to the periphery of Iraq, to reallocate funding from the war to our unmet homeland security needs and to re-engage with other countries to put pressure on Afghanistan and fight a more effective war on true terrorism.”

As our representative it seems clear to me that you can make a stand in a public way against Bush’s policies in Iraq. Forging an alliance with like-minded Democrats on the war would show willingness to set aside divisive politics for a larger and historic goal:

Bringing the national folly of the Iraq War to an end.