My email to Senator Hagel,
When you make statements calling the Iraq war another Vietnam you are doing EXACTLY what the enemy wants. They know they cannot beat us on the battlefield, they ARE beating us in the news though. The enemy knows how to maniplulate the news and it is working great for them. I call it treasonous. I may get my chance to go to Iraq someday and I will be thinking of all of the people back here that really support the troops.
When powerful people like yourself make these kinds of statements in the news you embolden the enemy and indirectly cause the deaths of more American troops. That is modern war for you. Instant news is bad and even worse when we give the enemy strength with it. I hope you don't run for president, With your attitude America is doomed. I will definately be campaiging against you should that day come. Our troops deserve strong unnerved total support from their nation. They are the best on earth but can be distracted from their mission by rifts at home. Please think about what your saying and the impact it has.
I've included a couple of old quotes for you to read and think about:
Long, dark months of trials and tribulations lie before us. Not only great dangers, but many more misfortunes, many shortcomings, many mistakes, many disappointments will surely be our lot. Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey, hardship our garment, consistency and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must stand undaunted, we must be inflexible." --Winston Churchill, October 8, 1940
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill