Strickland for Governor

Greetings to All; Please find listed below, the link to Congressman Ted Strickland's web site: http://www.tedstrickland.com/index.html Best regards, C. J. Bartley

We were right.

We were right all along. It's a dirty secret. Saying it will get you insulted by Rush and Hannity. O'Reilly will definitely tell you to "shut up". Others may tell you to sit down, or to be quiet. To mind your place. It's not pleasant, or polite. But it's true - the anti-war folks were right. The Downing Street Memos show that the Iraq war was planned from the beginning. There were never WMDs - despite our grand claims, not a one was found in two years of searching. We've given up on finding any. Over 1,700 American soldiers are now dead. Easily six times that many are wounded, many with life-shattering disabilities. Estimates of Iraqi civilian dead range over twenty thousand. The war has been an excuse for contractors with ties to the Republican administration to milk taxpayers for everything they could. Our security has been underfunded for the sake of the Iraq war. Terrorist attacks tripled between 2003 and 2004 alone. Bush's war has made us weaker, more hated, and less secure. Years later, over sixty percent of the American public wants our troops home. The Republican congressman who campaigned for "freedom fries" is siding with Sen. Kennedy in calling for a timetable for withdrawl. Dayton's bill for the Iraq boondoggle is $57 million dollars - more than the total bill for Coingate. Here, in one issue, is our moral stance, our economic stance, our security stance. Here, with the mishandling of Iraq and national security, is where Republican leadership has stumbled. Here is the Democratic Party's chance to make a difference - for our morals, our economy, and our safety. Will we take it?