Dear sir ( I know you prefer to be called Mr President ~ but I must remind you ~ you work for me and the American people )
It appears you are under the mistaken assumption that the vast majority of Iraqis want our protection ~ but the reality is that approximately 80% want us out pronto.
WE CANNOT CONQUER IRAQ and I offer you this
analogy to the quagmire we are currently engaged in.
It is the letter from William Pitt to the House of
Lords on November 18th, 1777.
It's entitled An English Plea For Peace With The American
Colonies ;
" My Lords, this ruinous and ignominious situation, where
we cannot act with success, nor suffer with honour, calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth, to rescue the ear of Majesty from the delusions
which surround it. You cannot, I venture to say, you
CANNOT conquer America.
What is your present situation there? We do not know the
worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done
nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense,
and strain every effort, still more extravagantly; accumulate
every assistance you can beg or borrow; traffic and barter
with every pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his
subjects to the shambles of a foreign country: your efforts
are forever vain and impotent-doubly so from this mercenary
aid on which you rely; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms! ~ Never! Never! Never! "
And the Iraqi freedom fighters ( I know that terminology makes you cringe ) will not lay down their arms for that very
same reason.
Iraq will be your waterloo and we will not allow you to drag all of us down into your black hole of deceit, hubris, humiliation and heartache.
Most sincerely,
Allen L Roland
Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson / Wash Post 
