Senator,
Your speech today was an important start. Thank you. You have the platform and the power be the agent of the change you're calling for in Iraq. Frankly, your speech also has critical flaws that need correction if you're going to succeed.
For one thing, don't keep trying to blame the Iraqi people. Such talk leaves you and this administration unaccountable. As the US administration fails to meet its own benchmarks, the troops must come home. That's right now. The US blaming the Iraqis is like the Democrats blaming Bush. You've been choosing to fund this, and now you have to stop.
Likewise, stop saying the Iraqis need our "training" on how to conduct a war in Iraq. If they ever need a lesson in killing half a million of civilians, shooting at Iraqi police, torture, getting massacred in amphibious vehicles, or leaving 1/2 billion pounds of explosives unguarded for terrorists - well, we can offer them that training course on line.
Finally, this diary proposes a bill you can introduce that will help our bravest veterans' families enormously and guarantee a quick end to the war.
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