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Text of Letter:
July 19, 2007
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to inform you that we will only support appropriating additional funds for U.S. military operations in Iraq during Fiscal Year 2008 and beyond for the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out of Iraq before you leave office.
More than 3,600 of our brave soldiers have died in Iraq. More than 26,000 have been seriously wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed or injured in the hostilities and more than 4 million have been displaced from their homes.
Furthermore, this conflict has degenerated into a sectarian civil war and U.S. taxpayers have paid more than $500 billion, despite assurances that you and your key advisors gave our nation at the time you ordered the invasion in March, 2003 that this military intervention would cost far less and be paid from Iraqi oil revenues.
We agree with a clear and growing majority of the American people who are opposed to continued, open-ended U.S. military operations in Iraq, and believe it is unwise and unacceptable for you to continue to unilaterally impose these staggering costs and the soaring debt on Americans currently and for generations to come.
Sincerely,
70 Democratic and Republican members of Congress:
Blumenauer
Napolitano
Hinojosa
Delahunt
Butterfield
Davis (AL)
McCollum
Scott (GA)
Oberstar
DeGette
Solis
Hare
Hodes
Scott
Lynch
Cleaver
Capps
Rothman
Paul
Woolsey
Waters
Lee
Carson
Tauscher
Capps
Holt
Hinchey
Watson
Pastor
Frank
Conyers
Hall
Filner
Rush
Rangel
Towns
Clay
Wynn
Norton
Maloney
Nadler
Honda
Cohen
Hastings
McGovern
Kaptor
Grijalva
Baldwin
Moore
Olver
Markey
Fattah
Pallone
Stark
Moran
Johnson (GA)
Payne
Clarke
Ellison
Gutierrez
Cummings
Velasquez
Davis (IL)
Christensen
Abercrombie
Linda Sanchez
Schakowsky
Lewis (GA)
Jackson Lee
McDermott
Where is Kucinich?