Mrs. Majority writes a letter

ToUSA Today

SubjectAsk your mother!

MessageI am a mother. War is my worst nightmare. For now, my child is too young to be thrust into the black and bleeding heart of a civil war America can't win. But too many are not too young. President Bush's escalation plan, which would send thousands more of America’s children to Iraq, is unconscionable and immoral because he knows it will fail. We all know it will fail. It is opposed by top military leaders, the Iraq Study Group, foreign policy experts, and the American people. President Bush's plan is shameful because it is nothing more than an effort to salvage lagging poll numbers by s! howing us that he's trying something new. But this is not new. This is just "stay the course" with more of America's children lined up at death's door. We citizens of this democratic nation must urge Congress to exercise its Constitutional authority to hold the president accountable for a change of course that allows for our troops to come home. We must do this for all of America’s children whom he intends to needlessly send to war. And we must do it for the even younger children, so that if, God forbid, they ever find themselves with a President as irresponsible as this one, that future President will remember when American citizens stood up and demanded that their wishes be heeded. President Bush is just rolling over all of us mothers and fathers and all of our children as if we had no power. We must not let him do this. And Congress is our power to stop him.

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