Calling All Message-Challenged Congresspeople:
Put This In Your Pocket & Repeat It Every Day.
I'm sending the following letter to my Senators & Rep--(easy to do at Congress.org.)
Urge others to follow suit & to pass the letter along.
To the Editor:
Re "Terror Plot Foiled; Airports Quickly Clamp Down" (front page, Aug. 11):
The actions of the British in stopping this bomb plot were classic examples of good international police work. President Bush touted this as part of the "war on terror," but it apparently did not involve any army, navy or air force.
No bombs were dropped. No country was invaded. No one was killed, and nothing was destroyed.
It was effective, and it did not enrage millions as the invasion of Iraq has done. It was a police action, not an act of war.
The "war on terror" is not a war. President Bush calls it a war so that he can be a wartime president and claim to be a heroic protector of America, but this is bogus.
Terrorism cannot be fought with armies. They make things only worse. Mr. President, bring the armies home and concentrate on good police work.
John Hilberry
New York, Aug. 11, 2006
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