We have contact name for John McCains office.
She is the press adviser and her name is Rachel Dean.
We would like to compose a letter but use the talent of this entire room to format it.
Its going to be interesting but please give your ideas of a well written letter we can provide John McCain along with information on how he could inform the public.
Thank you for posting this. I think we should send the McCain campaign the translation and the original Arabic document which I just e-mailed you. You may also want to add that we have other captured Iraqi documents that talks about Saddam regime training Foreign Arab terrorists (non Iraqi) since the year 1999 and that in the months of March and April 2003 they trained them to conduct terrorist attacks against US troops and Saddam issued a decree stating that the foreign Arab terrorist shall be treated as if they are special Iraqi forces.
911 Commission: 2.1 A DECLARATION OF WAR
"On February 23, 1998, Bin Ladin issued his public fatwa. The language had been in negotiation for some time, as part of the merger under way between Bin Ladin's organization and Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad."
"Declarations taking credit for the attacks had already been faxed to the joint al Qaeda-Egyptian Islamic Jihad office in Baku,..."
"On the morning of August 7, the bomb-laden trucks drove into the embassies roughly five minutes apart-about 10:35 A.M. in Nairobi and 10:39 A.M. in Dar es Salaam.... The attack on the U.S. embassy in Nairobi destroyed the embassy and killed 12 Americans and 201 others, almost all Kenyans. About 5,000 people were injured. The attack on the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam killed 11 more people,..."
Also here is the transcript of the terrorists who got caught attempting a chemical attack in Jordan to kill 80,000 people and to hit US interests as they confess. They discuss how they set up camp in Iraq with Al Zarqawi after Afghanistan fell to the coalition forces.
One thing I would make sure of is that regardless of the wording the letter should be in MLA format to the extent possible.
It should further note that "operational" support for 9/11 which did NOT occur, was far, far different from general aid, comfort, and financial support by Iraq for terrorist activities. Saddam did this. The record is clear and undeniable. There were AQ in Iraq in 2002, and there have been terrorists operating out of Iraq for a decade.
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Dear Sen. McCain:
A key to your victory in November will be to do a better job than the Administration has in convincing the voting public that the Liberation of Iraq was (1) legitimate, (2) wise and (3) successful.
Grass-roots translations of documents found in Iraq and released for public review by the Pentagon have provided some valuable information which speaks to these three points:
(1) Legtitimacy. This should be the easiest point to support. Saddam was repeatedly in violation of the 1991 terms of armistice following our defense of our ally Kuwait. Having tried leaving Saddam in place as a counterbalance to an ambitious Iran, we had every right to finish the job based on Saddam’s violations. In addition, the above-mentioned open-source translations have revealed collaborations between al Qaeda and Saddam’s Iraq. [citations] Saddam had supportive links with al Qaeda and had his own terrorist training ground at Salman Pak. He had to go.
(2) Wisdom. Every Western intelligence agency—EVERY one—concluded that Saddam’s WMD boasts were true. However, only small amounts of WMDs have been found to-date, though those included hundreds of tons of yellocake uranium ore which Iraq did, indeed, purchase from Africa. With the press content to spotlight the paucity of WMDs and leave it at that, its whys have not been adequately explored. Iraq has the area of California and approximately one coalition troop per square mile. We’ve found entire fighter jets buried in the sand; it is certainly conceivable that compact stashes of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons-stock remain hidden within Iraq’s borders. In addition, some truck convoys to Syria during the interminable diplomatic runup to the US’s action remain to be explained. In any case, regime change was the stated policy of the U.S. since 1998, but this remained mere words until 9/11 focused our attention. Given the horrors of 9/11 and Saddam’s well-documented support of terrorists including al Qaeda, and given Iraq’s tactically central role in the region, it was manifestly wise for its Liberation to be pursued.
(3) Success. Iraq has had free elections resulting in a stable, popularly-supported government. The purple fingers and smiling faces of newly liberated Iraqi voters form an iconic picture for this decade. “The Surge” for which you were an early and effective advocate has resulted in near-pacification of the entire country. Al Qaeda, lured into Iraq through their alliance with Saddam as documented by the grass-roots translations [citation], is shattered. If there is one clear lesson, it is that we should have clamped down on border security harder and sooner, as 70% or more of the “insurgents” (to use the media’s watered-down term for terrorists) are outsiders lured to Iraq through fundamentalist jihad. But this has been a war unlike any other, and while the troops killed and injured are very regrettable, the casualty rate is unprecedentedly low, and their sacrifice has freed a people and reconfigured a region... for the better.
We urge you to be forthright, bold and proud in advocating for America’s Liberation of Iraq. As history unfolds, the three points above will gain increasing acceptance. But the time to begin espousing them is now.
See Post #164
I’d say make a copy, post a fax number for them (available on McCain’s Senate Page) and blanket them.
Dear Rachel Dean:
cc: Liberal Main Stream Media
Dear America Hating Leftist Traitors,
You have steadfastly maintained ad nauseum that al Qaeda is NOT in Iraq. You forgot to send al Qaeda the message that they are not in Iraq.
Thank you,
Folks who don’t want to get blown up by Islamofascists