Posted by
Vedette on Sunday, August 26, 2007 12:49:01 PM
Dear President Bush,
Wake up Mr. President, we are on the cusp of loosing the war in Iraq and the 2008 elections because you continue to avoid delivery of a candid message regarding America’s critical stake in winning the fight for Iraq.
“Americans should understand that this war is not about saving the Iraqi’s from themselves. The impact of our retreat from Iraq must be viewed on a much larger scale. It will signal Iran, Israel, Al Qaeda, and our allies around the world that we lack the stomach to stay the fight and will not be there when the going gets tough. In the vacuum we leave behind an emboldened and nuclear Iran will rapidly move to take control of the entire Middle East and threaten the annihilation of Israel.
The implications are sobering. Saudi, Egypt, Jordan, and all of the lesser Arab nations will face the choice of war with Iran or compliance with their political control, lacking the military force to resist Iran’s powerful and modern armed force they will have little choice but that of surrender. Israel will be forced to launch a nuclear strike against Iran or face extinction.
A radical anti-western Iran will control both the worlds’ primary source of petroleum and the shipping routes through the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf. An emboldened radical Islamic terrorist movement will exploit this opportunity and acting in concert with, and supported by, Iran spread violence across the western world. The United States held hostage to the Iranian’s control of Persian Gulf oil, threatened by escalating terrorist attacks at home, and anticipating the inevitable nuclear war between Israel and Iran will be drawn into a conflict which makes the human and financial cost of the war in Iraq look quite insignificant.”
Absent this message the security of America’s future appears both doubtful and foreboding.