Congressional Talking Point #1 — for constant repetition:

This administration has shown OVER and OVER that it does not support our troops

• lack of armor
  
• lack of plans
  
• lack of caring: extending tours, relying on National Guard
  
• continual cutting of healthcare, treatment and benefits for veterans
  
• rats and worse at Walter Reed Hospital,
  
• NOW...funding insurgents???!!
       — etc.

Talking Point #2:

This administration shows NO understanding of SECURITY:

• no one got fired after 911
  
• culprits were declared, but no real investigation took place
  
• every policy further inflames current and potential Mideast enemies
  
• our lack of caring about — or even counting — "enemy" ("foreign?") civilian dead creates tens of thousands of martyrs and future vengeance-seekers
  
• they alienate every potential ally the US could have throughout the world
  
• Katrina shows lack of caring/preparation when oil is not involved
  
• true security means an overall sense of life-security of our population: healthcare, housing, education, increasong job opportunities, participation in decision-making

It's time Dems went to the mat to save our Constitution/country — just SAY IT AS IT IS — Over and Over.

How on earth does this Congress even allow this Administration to lay claim to either Improving Our Security or "Supporting" the Troops??

Accept NOT ONE WORD of backtalk from the phony patriots who would destroy our Constitution to make the world safe for corporate rule.

This letter about the US in Iraq was published today in Miami Herald:

Out of Iraq

Forget the faux-patriotic rhetoric! It is time to stop funding this Mideast debacle. No good can come from the United States remaining in Iraq. Anyone who thinks this administration cares about the health, welfare and voting practices of the Iraqis any more than it did about residents of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans is mistaken.

The Bush administration wants to use military bases throughout the world to guarantee control and flow of energy resources. Bravado aside, this administration understands virtually nothing about the security of this nation. No one was even fired after the worst security breach in our history. It believes that superior firepower is all that is needed. Might makes right.

The administration shreds international treaties and laws with the ease that it shreds our Constitution. Since we aren't in Iraq to help the Iraqi people, or even U.S. security, but rather for oil companies, every day that we stay is one day worse for Iraqis and for our security here at home.

ALAN KOBRIN, Miami Beach