I received the following from one of the more liberal members of my family. It’s a letter from Congressman Murtha asking for donations. I suggest that to understand what the congressman is saying you substitute the words, "Have an Honest Debate over How to Raise the White Flag of Defeat and Surrender," when he says, "Have an Honest Debate For the Safety of Our Troops." That’s actually what he means.

America wants and deserves real answers on Iraq: What is the clear definition of success? Is there a plan? How much longer and how many more lives? In short, what is the end game? Because we in Congress are charged with overseeing the safety of our sons and daughters when the president sends them into battle, it is our responsibility, our obligation to speak out for them. This obligation has not been met. That's why I am speaking out now. I offered a concrete plan to get our troops out of harm's way, where they have become the target. I don't expect every member of Congress to agree with my specific proposal in this debate - but I do expect them to take part in that debate, not to squash it. I am asking you to join me in demanding a real discussion of the war in Iraq from the U.S. House of Representatives. Tell Congress to Have an Honest Debate For the Safety of Our Troops.

For too long Congress has counted itself out of any real debate on Iraq policy. We didn't talk about troop levels, even after the White House fired General Shinseki because he complained the levels were too low. One problem we encountered was the lack of proper training for our troops; service members were placed to guard the prisons but weren't trained; consequently we had Abu Ghraib, and no action from Congress. And if you look at the casualties, they have doubled since then. It's time to change our course - we can't just sit back any longer. I've taken a lot of trips to Iraq. When I came back from my last one, I had become convinced we were making no progress at all. This can't be Republican and Democrat. It can't be recrimination one way or the other. We have to work this thing out, and we can't let a real solution get caught in the crossfire of an understandably heated political fight. It's time for a serious conversation, not more rhetoric. Tell Congress to Have an Honest Debate For the Safety of Our Troops.

The past few weeks have had a lot of firsts for me. I have never sought out the spotlight, or even taken the lead in a House floor debate the way I did a few weeks ago. And I've never signed an email like this before. But I see the beginning of a debate that is long overdue, and we can't afford to let it get overtaken by talking points or the news cycle. I'm offering this petition, which will be delivered to Speaker of the House in order to keep our Congress focused where it should have been all along. I hope you'll sign if you agree.

No Congressman Murtha, I don’t agree. Congress has a sworn duty to focus on winning both the war and the peace in Iraq with a resounding victory. By your own words, you want us defeated. This is but one more of thousands of efforts by liberal Democrats - the ones I call the Feudals - to bring this country to its knees in another humiliating defeat like Viet Nam. And, no! I was not in favor of the Viet Nam war. I didn’t think the whole of Southeast Asia was worth the sacrifice of a single American life. We would have won that war easily and with a lot less loss of life on both sides were it not for the fact that liberal politicians micro-managed the war for political gain in America. I can absolutely guarantee if politicians like Murtha, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and the other liberal self-servers were in power at the time of the first Gulf War that Saddam Hussein would now control not only Kuwait but Saudi Arabia and the entire Arabian peninsula. These politicians are now trying desperately to help our enemies by encouraging insurrection and terrorism. All I can conclude is that they hope to regain power by bringing our nation to defeat and retreat in the Middle East. They will gain as they blame this defeat that they will have helped engineer on Bush and his administration.

All you have to do is listen to the propaganda from al Gazeera and al Queda to hear the same words as come out of the mouths of liberal Democrats. I like to think these liberals are just too stupid to realize how much they are helping and encouraging our enemies. The alternative is too frightening to consider. These enemies are also the enemies of free Iraqis as well.

The brutal dictators of the world are in a huge majority in the UN. The freedom Americans have always espoused and supported strikes fear into the hearts of these despots. That’s why the majority of nations hate America - their tyrants fear for their lives. The common people don’t, but they have little effect on the state press in so many oppressed nations and the liberal press elsewhere.

If the policies that liberal Democrats now propose and efforts they now oppose were in power during World War II, I guarantee you that Japan would have occupied western America and Germany would have occupied the eastern half. If they had merely been in control when "The Bomb" was proposed, it wouldn’t have been dropped and a million more Americans and several million more Japanese would have died.

France is just beginning to feel the effects of a Muslim invasion that has been going on for decades. Up until now they have been able to sweep much of these troubles under the carpet. I predict things are going to get much worse in France and Germany will soon follow. All you have to do to understand what us going to happen is to read what Bin Laden and other Wahabi Muslims are writing. Iraq is the keystone. Bin Laden even says so. We didn’t believe his threats of terror and warfare before 9-11 and apparently liberal Democrats have gone back to considering he, al Queda and the terrorists (freedom fighters to liberal Democrats) no longer pose a threat. I would prefer we lose two-thousand, three-thousand, or even more in Iraq then two or three hundreds of thousands in American streets.

Have any of you ever read or listened to George Bush’s plan for victory in creating a democratic Iraq? It was published on the Whitehouse web site more than two years ago. Probably not. That way you can continue to say he has no plan. The liberal Democrat plan is to provide al Queda and other Muslim terrorists a specific timetable for the withdrawal of our troops so they can plan their takeover as our troops leave. How can any human being who doesn’t want to ensure our total defeat possibly make such a proposal. I like to think it is merely stupidity, but fear there is a far more sinister purpose. The truth of the matter is that if America perseveres and does create a free and democratic Iraq, it will be a huge blow to Muslim extremists. That’s why these despots are trying so hard with murder and mayhem toward innocents. A free Iraq would also spell the death knell for liberalism in America for a very long time. That’s why you don’t want us to succeed!

Remember the fiasco in Mogadishu with American bodies being dragged through the streets? Weren’t liberals in control during that action? And how about the blunder in the desert when we were supposed to be rescuing the hostages from Iran? By what effort and at whose direction did those hostages finally come home? Congressman Murtha, if you want lots of people to die and America to look weak and ineffective, turn the military over to liberals. If you want the least number to die and real freedom for the peoples involved, count on good old conservative Republicans. I suppose you will continue to propose we wave the white flag of defeat and surrender so the despots of the world will be assured they have nothing to fear from America. Then, the "shot heard 'round the world" will have been effectively silenced. Perhaps you want the world to forget completely what we Americans started at Lexington and Concord.

Howard Johnson

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