Day 3... Declare Victory and Bring the Troops Home.

                                                                                          
Dear Mr. President,

I know this is arriving after the fact, but I wanted all the brouhaha to subside before I sent my thoughts and comments.

Congratulations on bringing Bin Laden to justice… I don’t say for killing him because I think that’s kind of ghoulish, but you did indeed exact justice. In fact, I think it was the perfect solution to an unwinnable problem. If you had captured him like Saddam Hussein then the country would have been further divided by how to handle a trial, his care, his faith, etc… His followers, would never accept how America treated him, no matter what we did. You know that to be true just from how they have responded to his burial at sea. In short, there would be constant criticism, which would only serve as another distraction from our real problems, like unemployment, health care… you know the whole list better than I do.

Promise fulfilled by President Obama

To the point of today’s letter… Now that Bin Laden is out of the picture, you Mr. President, have the perfect opportunity to announce that you will be bringing home a good part of our military men and women deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan… Declare a small victory against terrorism and bring some of our children, fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers home to their families. Isn’t it time to easy the burden placed on these families that are sacrificing so much for this country? I say the time is perfect for you to fulfill that promise to the American people. You will then truly become an American Hero, at least in the eyes of many and certainly in the eyes of the military families. 

We have so many of our own problems here at home that need our desperate attention… so tomorrow I will talk about some of the problems facing ordinary people… people like my brother who was out of work for so long that the stress finally killed him. People like my sister who is upside down in her house, and cannot get relief from B of A or anyone else she had contacted.

In closing for today, I want to thank you again for fulfilling your promise to get Bin Laden… you did a great job, and please think about bringing home some of our troops.

Most Respectfully,

Marcia Reimers

The Gadfly Granny