Senator Byron Dorgan - Open Letter for Statesmanship

Dear Senator Byron Dorgan, I have watched you from time to time speaking on the Senate floor. You are one of the very few Democrats that I tend to rergard as responsible and having the qualities of a statesman. I am a conservative and I have a sincere request for you. I have watched for six years as the Democrat Party in both houses of Congress have generally fought the President tooth and toenail. For six years it has been relentless and in some cases petty. But that I am reminded is "politics". I am calling upon you for leadership and statesmanship. If Democrats in elected positions of leadership would just for six months support the President in Iraq - it is not Bush's war- it is a war America is in and it is a war to keep "terrorists" busy. But with one hand we "fight" and protect the borders of Iraq and with the other hand we keep our borders open. American people generally do want change in Iraq and that change is "a war won". I for one want Maliki and company to defend their own nation but we must remember we are dealing with, as Brigitte Gabriel says, "tribes with flags". Islamic Imperialism is a real and present danger to our way of life, to our freedoms - look at the success the terrorists have had in America already. I am looking to you to stand for America - setting politics aside and grow into the statesman that I believe you can be. When I have heard you speak, you have spoken with a higher standard of integrity - at least that is how you appear to me. Please, use your influence to get the Senate Democrats to support the President - the Commander and Chief - just for six months. Can you imagine how much Americans hunger for "victory"? We have faced defeat ever since the birth of the United Nations. My readers will conclude that I have lost my mind to ask for reason and statesmanship from any elected politican but I call upon you. If the Democrats in the House and in the Senate redirected just 10% of their energy to support the President just for 6 months - spoke with one voice to the world that we will not let Iraq fall to Iran or to Saudi Arabia, to street gangs and thugs and such, the world would listen. We, the people, need leadership and statesmen - not deal makers, not folks who pay tribute in any form to those who plan to do us harm. Please do the near-impossible, set politics aside and put the nation first. We desperately need statesmen, builders of our nation, statesmen who will stop the invasion into our nation dead in its tracks. Cordially, an American citizen's plea for statesmanship.