Today's letter to my US Representative and Senators

Soon, there will be a vote for more funding for the war on Afghanistan.

I urge you to vote no on war funding unless there is an exit strategy developed.

The point of our military is to kill our enemies and break their stuff (whatever they use to fight with).  But we do not have enemies in Afghanistan, and we don't in Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, or any other country in the world at this time.  What we have are criminals who want to goad us into a fight, criminals who want to hurt Americans, criminals who want to engage in terrorism. 

They are much like Timothy McVeigh or Eric Rudolph.  They are sick, and we need to stop them as soon as we can.  We need the help of foreign governments to achieve this goal.

We will not get help or assistance if we continue to kill innocent people like recent video from Iraq leaked by WikiLeaks has shown.  We will not get help or assistance if we continue to do night raids in Afghanistan and kill pregnant women and then cover it up.  Instead, we will create more terrorists, more criminals.

Please read this:

"Afghan Investigators Say U.S. Troops Tried To Cover Up Evidence In Botched Raid," Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Abdul Waheed Wafa, New York Times, April 5, 2010

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/538#April610t1

Please watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3D5rXPrfnU3G0%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded

Thank you for your time.