Father of Iraq Soldier Blasts Tom Davis (R-VA)

Dear Virginians,

Please vote these bums and crooks out of office, for the sake of our country, and the world.


Daily Kos: Father of Iraq Soldier Blasts Tom Davis (R-VA): (Full article at Kos)

To my undying regret, I helped elect both President Bush and Congressman Tom Davis. All I can do now is seek some small measure of redemption by campaigning for Andrew Hurst.

Months before my son deployed to Iraq, I wrote a heartfelt letter to Congressman Davis expressing misgivings about the war, and growing concerns about the needless peril faced by troops saddled with substandard armor and equipment.
Not content to mail the letter, I visited Congressman Davis's office to deliver it personally.

My son has now been in Iraq for nearly five months and I am still awaiting the Congressman's reply. Evidently, he is too busy investigating steroid use in baseball to be bothered with a constituent's anguish over life and death issues in Iraq.

Like the pampered and privileged Bush twins, Davis's own children are safely removed from the hellish realities of Iraq. So Davis is free to echo Bush's infuriating claim that this war is 'worth' the costs ordinary citizens pay in dollars and lives.
Without exception, all the armchair warriors (Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Wolfowitz) managed to avoid military service. And not one has a child in uniform.

No single congressman can undo the damage done by Bush and his rubberstamping sycophants in Congress, but we can start by electing candidates like Andy Hurst in November. Mr. Hurst is refreshingly accessible and receptive to voters' concerns. Isn't it time the 11th district had a congressman who would actually represent the concerns of his constituents?

Howard G. Simkins

Fairfax