Dear Representative and Senators,
I believe there is now sufficent evidence to strongly suspect that President Bush and members of his administration, including Vice President Cheney, deliberately misled Congress and the people about the need or reasons for war in Iraq. An investigation must be conducted by Congress on this matter of grave concern. Even if there were good but unstated reasons for going to war in Iraq, such reasons must always be discussed in Congress before the initiation of war; to do otherwise is a crime against our Constitution and the principles of Democracy itself.
The Downing Street Minutes are the best written evidence we have of this from the highest level of an allied government: the British Prime Minister and his Chief Intelligence Officer. But this is not the only evidence. There are many other credible accounts regarding alleged shipments of uranium and aluminum tubes where Administration officials and even the President himself, in his State of the Union address, distorted what is now believed to have been the best information available to them, possibly to create a false pretext for going to war. Finally, the alleged weapons of mass destruction have never been found, and President Bush has continued defending the war on other grounds, while never admitting any mistake.
If this war was started by lies, the President cannot be trusted either to continue commanding it or to bring it to a just end as swiftly as possible, renouncing all claims to bases in Iraq, and to the future direction of Iraq. We owe it to our troops, to the people of our country, Iraq, and all other nations in the world to do what needs to be done following the democratic procedures of our Constitution.
Sincerely,