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Senator Feingold,

I write to you as a tremendous fan of your time in the senate and the stands you have taken. I write to you as someone who walked neighborhoods until my feet and legs could barely go anymore for your campaign in 1998 (and I will do it again). I write to you as an American.

George W. Bush and his administration have lied to us, misled us, misinformed us, and secured our support for an unjust war under utterly false pretenses. The truth is coming out, slowly but surely, as even administration hard-liners like Advisor Rice admit that the evidence presented was phony, Iraqi defectors deny connections to al Qaeda, and weapons of mass destruction elude discovery.

If ever a situation existed that demanded a full and frank accounting of how the president misused his office and how the hand-picked team around him influenced debate with specious evidence, such a situation exists now. The conflict in Iraq has claimed more than 200 American lives, the lives of dozens of other coalition soldiers, and the lives of untold thousands of Iraqis. The Pentagon refuses to release the number of American wounded, so total American casualties are even higher. And these deaths and injuries are the sole result of misapplication of trumped-up evidence and deception on the part of the president and his administration; these deaths and injuries are then, by extension, all of our responsibilities.

So I implore you, Senator Feingold, to use the power of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to bring to light the extent of the deception. The international community has already lost respect for us; do not let relations worsen over continued dissemblance from the present White House.

Yours,

Folkbum