Bi-Partisan Letter to President Bush -- Ask Jim Walsh to Sign On!
 
(The original letter was sent on July 19 with 70 signatures, an updated version with added signatures will be sent to the president in September.)

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