Heres what I said to both Patti Murray and Maria Cantwell, our Washington State Senators, the two leading lights for "Senate Lightweight of the Year":
Dear Senator Murray:
I am profoundly disapointed and dismayed at the stand the Democrat Party leadership is taking on Iraq. Gore, Daschel and Kennedy have been less than clear in the logic of their opposition to the President's insistance on the disarmament of Iraq.
Gore's speech was befuddled equivication. Daschel took Bush's comments on opposition to the Homeland Security legislation out of context in an attempt to divide the nation on Iraq. Kennedy says that if we attack Saddam may use his WMD. What will he use if we wait Senator?
I question the wisdom of waiting; Saddam will only get more horrific weapons as time passes. We know form past experience in Iraq that inspections are unworkable half-measures at best.
Now we have Jim McDermott in Iraq siding with the dictator Saddam and saying that Bush would intentionally mislead the nation into war. This behavior is bordering on that of Jane Fonda in the Vietnam War. Perhaps more accurately, they reflect the actions of Joseph Kennedy in supporting Hitler and the Nazi's prior to WWII. McDermott should be censured by the Democratic Party.
I feel strongly that these leaders are on the wrong path: our position shoud be for the protection of America against the forces of terror - of which Saddam has been a lynchpin for many years. We must forstall his next logical step - which is both nuclear and action in concert with al Qaeda.
Sincerely: Name Address Phone"