write a letter to your congresspeople

...to tell them to stop our President's plan to escalate the war in Iraq.

I did it. It's easy, just click here and follow their instructions. They give you the "talking points" to cover, so it's not like you need to be too creative or anything.

Here's my letter:

It seems that a majority of Congress opposes escalation in the war in Iraq. What needs to be done now is to act to stop President Bush from continuing to make the disaster in Iraq even worse.

Although I have not heard it recently, it was not long ago that President Bush was frequently heard in television sound bites proclaiming himself "The Decider." Congress needs to step in and make some decisions and exercise the checks and balances they have on the President's power. We need to bring our troops home and put an end to a war that should never have been in the first place, the current Iraq war.

In the elections last November the citizens of the United States proclaimed a new mandate for our government. We do not want more troops sent to Iraq; we want the war to end. Furthermore, President Bush's policy has been explicitly proscribed by the Iraq Study Group as well as many current and ex-generals.

Stopping escalation is the best way to support our troops. What better support is there than to take them out of harms way, especially if the we the people oppose the war? Just as important: if we should find ourselves in a situation where we need our military deployed elsewhere, we need them free to do just that. If the status quo remains or is exacerbated in Iraq, our armed forces may not be able to respond as urgently as could be necessary.

It might not make much of a difference, especially considering our representative, and our republican senators; but it makes me feel good.