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Letter to a useless Senator
The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/7/2005 | ca-dreamer

Posted on 07/07/2005 5:35:41 PM PDT by ca-dreamer74

Boxer criticizes Iraq war in SF speech 'Our troops deserve more,' senator says Bay City News Wednesday, July 6, 2005 * Printable Version * Email This Article Sen. Barbara Boxer offered a major foreign policy speech on the war in Iraq before hundreds of her constituents in San Francisco today. The situation in Iraq is spiraling out of control, she said, and the pool of people willing to fight in the insurgency against American troop presence there seems bottomless. She described herself as "distressed, angry and frustrated'' over the continuing unrest in Iraq and the mounting death toll with no apparent end in sight.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; US: California; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 109th; boxer; senatorboxer
Dear Senator Boxer,

I recall with great clarity the beginning of your Senate career, dodging the House check-writing scandal to become a successful Senate candidate for California. I remember your commercials, how you promised California that you would get Japan and Germany to pay us for their defense. I remember laughing at it. How preposterous, that you would turn America into the great protection racketeer of the world. Nevertheless, you continue to confound me with your latest foreign policy blunders regarding Iraq, and I write you now to entreat you to shut up. I read your speech to the commonwealth club and your remarks in the San Francisco Chronicle. In your own words you continue to wring your hands regarding the war in Iraq: the loss of lives, the loss of the 'propaganda war', the failure to get Osama Bin Laden and the lack of a timetable.

First, I recognize that you are merely a politician; your words are carefully measured to impact the audience in a way so as to appeal to their own beliefs and ensure they donate a bunch of money to your campaign 'war chest.' I realize that you are a naïf when it comes to successful foreign policy, especially since there hasn't been much of it since the end of World War II. However, I think you should ask an aid to read you the casualty statistics for the wars America has been involved in. While you might be "distressed, angry and frustrated" over the mounting toll the war in Iraq has taken on our soldiers, our losses in Iraq are insignificant in comparison to those lost in previous conflicts. What are 2,000 dead in comparison to our losses in World War II? In comparison to Vietnam?

You have also bemoaned the loss of the 'propaganda war' in this speech. Have you looked into how we lost this supposed propaganda war? Have you noticed that your own colleagues, and indeed yourself, have provided aid and comfort to our enemies while seeking political gain? Perhaps if the ACLU was not out trying to gain privileges, normally reserved for American citizens, for enemy combatants, illegal aliens, indeed anyone save an American citizen, we could win this war on terror. Perhaps if you and the Democrats would stand behind the Commander-in-Chief and the soldiers for longer than it takes to get a photo-op, the terrorists would recognize that they were facing a strong and united America. Instead you stand up behind the surrender-now-crowd and score cheap political points with people who were going to vote for you anyway. Instead you turn your back on the nation and the soldiers who defend it to take shots at the President. You have second-guessed him, called him a liar, impugned his skills at leadership, and indeed told other nations to ignore him since he will be out of office soon, to the extent that our enemies are strengthened against us.

Finally, you derail any attempt to win the war on terror by your incessant demands as to the location of Osama Bin Laden. War isn't a complex game of Where's Waldo! Even if we captured Bin Laden, and put him on trial, and all that you hope for comes to pass, the war would go on. Al Qaeda isn't a World War II Germany, capture Hitler and everyone will surrender; they are a loose affiliation of religious madmen. You hope we "capture those responsible" for 9/11, the bombings in Madrid, and now the bombings in London. I don't. I hope we annihilate them. I hope we go out and kill every single terrorist and terrorist abettor out there. Simply because I know that if we captured them, the Democrats and the ACLU would ensure they were released or acquitted, so that they might get an edge in the next election. If we kill them all, then we certainly won’t have to worry about them attacking us, recruiting others, or training more terrorists to attack us. You also want a timetable for our withdrawal from Iraq. If that aide of yours is still blathering on and on about the thousands more Americans that have died in foreign conflicts than in Iraq, ask him to tell you about what happened after our timetable in Vietnam. You will learn that our enemies waited until we left, and then pounced on the poorly defended South Vietnamese and slaughtered them and as many Cambodians and Laotians as they could get their hands on. So no, a timetable is really a bad idea. Besides, shouldn’t you be asking former President Clinton for a timetable regarding our troops in Bosnia first?

In conclusion, I find that the biggest difference between you and the people you have sworn to represent is that your concern is what is best for your political future and ours is what is best for our future. Rather than try to win the war on terror, support the President, support the troops, and support legislation to keep America safer, you have chosen the terrorists. You choose more dead Americans as long as it makes the Republicans look bad. You choose political innuendo and cheap attacks over intelligent leadership and strong values. Your cheap attacks and constant badgering of the war effort is doing everything it can to lose the war in Iraq, when it has been nothing but a string of lopsided victories thus far. Your words of derision, doubt, and dishonor are doing everything they can to lose the propaganda war to Al Jazeera and a man hiding in a cave. Your constant cries of 'Where's Osama' do nothing but strengthen the resolve of the terrorists and make us seem weak in the eyes of the world. Thus I beg and plead, badger about health care all you want, decry the lack of education for illegal aliens, demand more liberals on the Supreme Court, indeed, push all the liberal/socialist legislation through Congress that you can, just stop talking about foreign policy. Unless you someday want your service to America honored in an al Qaeda museum, a la John Kerry in Vietnam, leave the war on terror to the people who want to win it.

1 posted on 07/07/2005 5:35:41 PM PDT by ca-dreamer74
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To: ca-dreamer74

Partner, that's a first class ass chewin!

Semper Fi.


2 posted on 07/07/2005 5:40:44 PM PDT by kas2591 (Life's harder when you're stupid.)
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To: ca-dreamer74

FANTASTIC!!!


3 posted on 07/07/2005 5:41:25 PM PDT by rose
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To: ca-dreamer74

Good job. Won't change any one of the few brain cells Boxcutter has.


4 posted on 07/07/2005 5:42:23 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: kas2591

It does leave a bad taste in the mouth of the person chewing her out.


5 posted on 07/07/2005 5:43:58 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: ca-dreamer74
....you have sworn to represent...

Incredibly well worded letter.

Whether she reads it or not, is irrelevent. She DOES NOT represent you. Your House member represents you. She is a Senator and has a TOTALLY different function than a Representative. Had it not been for the 17th Amendment, she would have been elected by the State legistures. As it stands, she is elected as just another represantive by the uninformed masses.

6 posted on 07/07/2005 5:44:41 PM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye (9/11/2001: #1 cXXXton Legacy; N. Korea NUKES: #2; Red China Nukes Target U.S.: #3)
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To: rose
The pool of people willing to fight in the insurgency against American troop presence there seems bottomless.

And that's just the liberal Democrats in the House and the Senate...

7 posted on 07/07/2005 5:44:56 PM PDT by Uncle Vlad
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To: ca-dreamer74

Awesome!!Send this to Rush and Sean and urge them to read it.


8 posted on 07/07/2005 5:45:33 PM PDT by DarthVader (Always ready to educate liberals by beating them profusely about the head with a Louisville Slugger.)
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To: Uncle Vlad

Ha ha ha! Too true! Too True!


9 posted on 07/07/2005 5:49:50 PM PDT by ca-dreamer74 (Known Blog-Pimp.)
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To: ca-dreamer74

Great comments! Hope you sent 'em to Babs!

I am a proud Californian (a transplant, since 1988) and I detest that woman. She is such an embarrassment! Unfortunately, she'll keep getting re-elected here.


10 posted on 07/07/2005 5:49:59 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (As long as Dean's the head of the D-N-C, it just looks better for the G-O-P!!)
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To: ca-dreamer74

Great letter, too bad one of her staffers will can it.


11 posted on 07/07/2005 5:50:09 PM PDT by RightWinger
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To: ca-dreamer74

bookmk,ping,fer later & thanks


12 posted on 07/07/2005 5:51:41 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: ca-dreamer74
Good job. Can we get it published in the SF paper?
13 posted on 07/07/2005 5:52:56 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT
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To: ca-dreamer74
Love it, but its too long. All you need it this:

You are not fit to hold the honorable office of United States Senator, and you are an embarrassment to your country.

Resign.
14 posted on 07/07/2005 5:53:31 PM PDT by roses of sharon (,)
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To: Theresawithanh

Sent on 7/7/2005 to Babs via her website. I'm not holding my breath for a response...


15 posted on 07/07/2005 5:54:30 PM PDT by ca-dreamer74 (Known Blog-Pimp.)
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To: ca-dreamer74

Send this to the editor of the Chronicle. Let's see if Mr. Ex-Sharon Stone will print it.


16 posted on 07/07/2005 5:55:05 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: ca-dreamer74
That's such a good letter that, if Boxer ever read it, even Her Denseness might concede that you have a point.

More likely you've served to convert one of her staffers, though.

Superb letter.

17 posted on 07/07/2005 5:55:13 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: ca-dreamer74
So no, a timetable is really a bad idea. Besides, shouldn’t you be asking former President Clinton for a timetable regarding our troops in Bosnia first?

Yeah, throw the fact we are still in Bosnia in their face and they usually shut up. It's as good as telling them you would agree with their stance on abortion if their mother had of gotten one.

18 posted on 07/07/2005 5:56:03 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Today I'm British (Okay, technically my ancestors are from there so I've always been)!!!!)
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To: ca-dreamer74
I write you now to entreat you to shut up.

A classic line. If only she would. This woman doesn't even have half a brain, I swear to God.

19 posted on 07/07/2005 5:59:54 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (Dick Durbin is like a cow pie, but lacks the same level of intellect.)
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To: ca-dreamer74

Your letter is outstanding.

We need to print it as a full page ad in the California papers.

This is when I wish I owned an oil well.


20 posted on 07/07/2005 6:00:23 PM PDT by exit82 (You see, I've been to the desert on a horse with no name--then I found FreeRepublic.)
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To: ca-dreamer74
Great letter!!!!!!!!!!

I'd love to be a fly on the wall while she is reading it, but no one on her staff will allow her to see it I'm sure.

And I do feel for you, but I have my own crosses to bear, Schumer & Clinton.

21 posted on 07/07/2005 6:02:49 PM PDT by b4its2late (GITMO is way too nice of a place to house low life terrorists.)
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To: ca-dreamer74

And welcome to FR BTW....


22 posted on 07/07/2005 6:03:28 PM PDT by b4its2late (GITMO is way too nice of a place to house low life terrorists.)
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To: b4its2late

I fear my own suffering in California is like the wails of children compared to those who suffer in New York beneath the tyranny of Clinton and Schumer.


23 posted on 07/07/2005 6:05:38 PM PDT by ca-dreamer74 (Known Blog-Pimp.)
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To: roses of sharon; ca-dreamer74
roses of sharon (,)

Ok, is that like a little tail or what ?
(it begged askin', ya know ?)

..and by the way ca-d, dandy letter !

24 posted on 07/07/2005 6:05:57 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Fledermaus
...you would agree with their stance on abortion if their mother had of gotten one.

Naughty, naughty boy !


lmao

25 posted on 07/07/2005 6:08:57 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: ca-dreamer74

What a great letter!

That one is a "keeper" and will be retained in my "reread when you get pissed off" file.


26 posted on 07/07/2005 6:10:04 PM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is...not be one of them!)
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To: ca-dreamer74
To save toner and paper

"Hey Boxer, you suck!"

27 posted on 07/07/2005 6:12:50 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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To: tomkat

I'm glad you asked, because I am ignorant with computers and haven't taken the time to figure out why that little "tail" just showed up one day after years!!!!

How should I get rid of it?

Seriously, don't make fun, I have no idea how it got there! Help!

Thanks for not laughing.


28 posted on 07/07/2005 6:13:00 PM PDT by roses of sharon (,)
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To: kas2591

I e-mailed her that she got first prize for biggest idiot of the senate.


29 posted on 07/07/2005 6:16:15 PM PDT by maizey (maizey)
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To: ca-dreamer74

"Sen. Barbara Boxer offered a major foreign policy speech ---"

THE ONLY THING THAT BABS IS CAPABLE OF OFFERING IS A
MAJOR BOWEL MOVEMENT!!!


30 posted on 07/07/2005 6:16:54 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: ca-dreamer74

Shooo-weee!

You blowed her up real good!!!!!


31 posted on 07/07/2005 6:18:50 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Durka Durka Durka. Muhammed Jihad Durka.)
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To: ca-dreamer74

Superbly crafted! That said, this haridan is unworthy of your advice and counsel.


32 posted on 07/07/2005 6:20:14 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: roses of sharon
Well, you can thank me, but I'm kinda gigglin' anyway ;-)

Next time you post something, look in the 'Tagline' box right underneath where you were typing.
You'll likely find a comma sittin' there, which is what's showin' us your tail...

*big grin*

33 posted on 07/07/2005 6:21:22 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: ca-dreamer74

Sweet job.


34 posted on 07/07/2005 6:23:47 PM PDT by John Robertson (Safe Travel)
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To: tomkat
Done! I have looked there before, and did not see it, (better clean my screen or get glasses).

How embarrassing, I have been walking around with that thing hanging out for months.

But, I can't stop laughing. Thanks Tomkat, your a true friend!
35 posted on 07/07/2005 6:37:21 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: roses of sharon
It worked, and you're welcome!


(still smiling)

36 posted on 07/07/2005 6:41:06 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: ca-dreamer74

Dear Lord, I hate to be grateful for a terrorist attack, but it seems it was necessary to show the mental defectives that this WAR is indeed here and in need of attention. The idiots in CONGRESS (R's and D's) frighteningly seem to need a wakeup call even after 9/11. I hope this will bring more patriots to the forfront and help the AMERICAN IDIOTS to understand what is at stake.


37 posted on 07/07/2005 6:43:40 PM PDT by az wildkitten
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To: ca-dreamer74

Great letter!

With a few changes, that letter could be just as applicable in regards to a great many democrats in both the House and Senate.


38 posted on 07/07/2005 6:46:45 PM PDT by adorno (The democrats are the best recruiting tool the terrorists could ever have.)
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To: az wildkitten
I hope this will bring more patriots to the forfront and help the AMERICAN IDIOTS to understand what is at stake. Those American idiots already understand. But, they don't care! The only thing they care about is regaining power in Congress and in the Presidency. You could have 10 more 9/11s and the democratss wouldn't change their minds.
39 posted on 07/07/2005 6:53:26 PM PDT by adorno (The democrats are the best recruiting tool the terrorists could ever have.)
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To: ca-dreamer74

Dear Barbara: Zip your lip. And tell your obnoxious Democratic constituents to stifle themselves, as well.


40 posted on 07/07/2005 6:54:56 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: ca-dreamer74
What a moron! Babs is too stupid to understand how much she gives aid and comfort to our enemies. Sadly, a person lacking in mental powers as much as she, cannot be held responsible for what she says or what she does.

Hey Boxer, you nitwit, have you gotten yourself fitted for your burqa yet?
41 posted on 07/07/2005 7:02:03 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: ca-dreamer74
Partner, that's a first class ass chewin!

This woman is so incredibly stupid that if a mountain lion were doin' the chewin' she would not notice. So save your well-reasoned and well-written thoughts, if you intend them for Boxer, or the marginally more less idiotic Feinstein.

This woman works off a script that is prepared for her, and unless you can reach the leftist brain trust that uses this annoying dimbulb as their mouthpiece, you'll get nowqhere fast. She is really quite stupid. Not merely ignorant ... actually stupid.

The fact that America's most populous state is represented by the two stupidest people in the Senate, with the possible exception of Joe Biden, is truly amazing.

Instead of addressing her, and thus indirectly the folks who can un-elect her, why not work to figure out how to energize the Republican base in CA, clean up your laughable voter rolls and send both your Senate bimbos packing. BTW, they have already cost CA a whole lot of its defense industry.

42 posted on 07/07/2005 7:45:47 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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To: ca-dreamer74


Great letter. . .a 'copy and share' post for sure.
.


43 posted on 07/07/2005 7:56:52 PM PDT by cricket (Just say NO U.N.)
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To: ca-dreamer74
Excellent!

And, lol, I saw the title, and being in the eastern US, I thought it was about Teddy K! But your words fit for him, as well!

44 posted on 07/07/2005 8:07:11 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: ca-dreamer74

Now THAT was a beautiful letter.


45 posted on 07/07/2005 9:39:38 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (I think it's true what they say 'bout the squeeky wheel ~ always gettin' the grease)
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To: ca-dreamer74

Good Job.

Personally I can not write a letter like that.

Before the end I must stop and ask God for forgiveness.

I usually get so mad that my language fast becomes x rated.


46 posted on 07/07/2005 9:49:37 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (LL THE)
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To: ca-dreamer74
Good job friend.....
BUT -- you made one critical erroneous assumption..
You think the bitch cares what YOU think....

She was recently reelected to a 6 year term..
The assholes in Kalifornicate who elected her -- love what she is saying...
She is preaching to HER choir....

The first opportunity we'll have to throw her ass out of office -- 5 years from now -- will likely come AFTER a million or so Americans have been killed by the Islamist forces she is hesitant to fight and destroy.

Her words may come back to haunt her -- if indeed anyone is still alive here to hear them..

Semper Fi
47 posted on 07/07/2005 10:02:45 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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