The Betrayal of The United States

I have been on a rampage lately about the Downing Street Memo, a document leaked to the London Times and printed there on May 1st.

I have never supported the war with Iraq. I believe we crossed a very dangerous line in March 2003. For the first time in US history, we carried out a war of agression against another country without any provocation. At that moment we became on equal moral footing with the Germans when they marched into Poland.

But what surprises me is that no one who supported this war seems outraged that they were lied to about our reasons for invasion. Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Intelligence reports indicated other nations as far more real threats where WMDs were concerned. No concrete link has been found between Iraq and the perpetrators of September 11, 2001.

The Bush Administration, for reasons that are still unclear, decided in the summer of 2002 that they would topple the government of Iraq, and then fixed intelligence reports to garner support for an invasion.

How can the conservatives in this country not be foaming at the mouth? The President they believed in and supported lied to them. To them. Not to the liberal side of the country, who were not going to support the war anyway. Does the Republican Party not realize they have been betrayed?

George Bush, as President of the United States, has a responsibility to represent this country and the values it holds dear. I would like to think those values include integrity and honor. By choosing to act on his own, with no regard for the truth, the President has betrayed the trust we as a people have placed in him. He is no longer acting in the best interests of the country.

He has also made the world less safe for US citizens, not more so.

It is time for the House and the Senate to bring this man to task. To send a clear message to him, and to all would be tyrants, that we will not accept leadership that does not reflect the basic values of truth and honor we hold dear.

Please join me in taking action. Contact your representatives in the House and Senate and demand they get to the bottom of this. Contact the press and demand they keep asking the question, "Mr. President, can you explain why you and your administration doctored intelligence reports to provide justification for the invaion of Iraq." To ask the question until they recieve an answer.

It is our government. Let's take it back.