My e-mail to the vice president

Mr. Vice President,

I am deeply concerned that our country has failed to adequately respond to the chief sponsor of the terrorists who gutted our cities on September 11, 2001. President’s Bush’s rhetoric has been encouraging, in particular his statement of the Bush doctrine and his identification of the axis of evil. Further, removing the Taliban and Saddam’s despicable regime were certainly justifiable and perhaps strategically useful. However, we have not taken any meaningful measures against the one country that is the ideological root for the terror campaign against us: Iran.

Iran declared war against our country on November 4, 1979, when Khomeini’s thugs stormed our Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans as prisoners for 444 days. In 1982 they sponsored the truck bombing that killed 241 Marines in Lebanon. Iran was linked to the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000 and according to the 9/11 Commission, to the September 11 attack.

For 25 years we have pursued a policy of appeasement towards the Iranians. President Carter set the terms by failing to respond militarily. President Reagan, contrary to popular belief, continued our policy of appeasement by negotiating with the Iranians. President Clinton failed to respond to the U.S.S. Cole bombing. And now President Bush, while correctly identifying Iran as a state sponsor of terror and part of the Axis of Evil, has continued our appeasement by leaning on the hapless European negotiators. All the while the Iranian mullahs chant “Death to America” and pursue their uranium enrichment program.

The only obstacle to victory in the War on Terror is our will to fight it. I strongly urge you to prevent the threat of a nuclear Iran.

Thank you.