Keep heat on Sens and Reps who supported the war

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via www.house.gov and www.senate.gov:

A sample (letter to my own Senator Gordon Smith):

War in Iraq:

Dear Senator Smith,

First, thanks to you and your staff for your good work. Your recent push to extend unemployment benefits does not go unnoticed.

To the matter at hand: after watching Donald Rumsfeld choke and sputter when confronted with a couple of bald-faced lies yesterday on Face the Nation, I'm writing to media outlets and to my elected representatives whom I don't think expressed enough skepticism toward the Administration's claims in the run-up to the war.

Unfortunately, you are one of those elected officials.

I think the people of Oregon need you to do a little better job in the future. After all, many of us couch-bound civilians saw right through the Administration's bogus claims, Colin Powell's goosed up Powerpoint slide show, the forged documents around an alleged attempted "nucular" (as our President so eloquently pronounces it) procurement from Niger, and the beyond-belief notion that the enemies Saddam and Osama were cooperating and that there was somehow a Saddam tie to the awful attack on 9-11. These are only a few of the lies we were told in justifying this unprecedented war of "preemption."

Senator Smith, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. Iraq obviously posed no imminent threat to the US - Not even Donald Rumsfeld would own that garbage on TV yesterday. As of this typing, 564 US troops have been killed. What exactly for?

Please explain your lack of skepticism on the highly dubious administration claims, and please justify your own prior claims in support of this war to the people of Oregon.

Your constituent,

Shawn Swagerty