As a concerned citizen and patriotic veteran, I urge that you seriously consider charging the Bush Administration, including the president, vice president, and all those involved in the WHIGS, with criminally negligent homicide resulting from the unjustified and illegal war in Iraq. Their egregious and reckless actions have caused the deaths of over two thousand American men and women who proudly served this nation. The worst part is that this war could have been avoided. I am not suggesting that any American politician or military personnel should be held accountable for appropriate actions taken in defense of this nation. This, however is not the case. There is enough evidence (e.g., The Downing Street Memos, Judith Miller's NYT stories on WMD) to show that there is a reasonable doubt this war was waged as a last resort to protect our nation form a clear and present danger, but rather as part of a broader conspiracy for power and profit, and that those involved knowingly conspired to "sell" this war to Congress and the American people.
In the name of all those who have given their "last full measure of devotion" so that this great nation may stand as a symbol of freedom, integrity, honor, and hope, I again urge you to take immediate action and right the wrongs that those aforementioned individuals have committed against this Nation and Democracy itself. Now is the time to show all Americans, and the World, that we will not tolerate tyranny, in any form, and that we can and will accept responsibility for our actions and will hold those responsible accountable.
Sincerely,
Your Name Here
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
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