Please Call or Write to your Senators:

January 12, 2007

To: Senator Pat Roberts

From: J. Patrice Cuddy-Lamoree and Family
21341 W. 123rd Terr.
Olathe, Ks. 66061-9718
harebo@wydeyed.com
913.782.3177

Re: Senator Kennedy’s bill to require the President to come to Congress for approval of his plans and to make specific funding requests for his plan for Iraq, which Congress must vote on.

The fact that the President and his advisors do not understand Iraq is strongly demonstrated by Secretary Rice’s recent statements to the effect that there are no contingency plans for what to do if benchmarks are not met.

This administration also does not understand that the conflict in Iraq is not primarily with al Qaeda. The situation is more dynamic than the President and Secretary Rice understand. The foreign fighters in Iraq are not all Al Qaeda. The Invasion of Iraq has triggered a Civil War, not the rise of a single caliphate belonging to Al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan and distributed in un-known other places around the World along with several similar terrorist groups. A “surge” escalates the dynamics in the geo-political and economic factors. Putting all of our Military Resources into Iraq puts the U.S. over-a-barrel, isolated, at serious disadvantage, while other World economic forces take over more markets, putting the U.S. even further into disadvantage. If we start a War on Iran too, we will be “over-the-barrel” – Paralyzed - Forever.

Please support Senator Kennedy’s efforts “To prohibit the use of funds for an escalation of United States Forces in Iraq above numbers existing as of January 9, 2007”.

I look forward to you voice in the national discourse on these matters soon.

Thanks for reading this.

Sincerely,