An Open Letter from the Honorable Senator Leonard K. Bullfinch

            After much debate I have decided not to support the President’s plan to invade Iraq.   I respect the President, and feel he has done a lot to our country.  However, invading Iraq will not make the United States a safer place, not when we allow the French to go unchecked.  France, in my opinion, is the biggest threat to national and international security.  I offer the following as proof.

            France has weapons of mass destruction.  They not only have nuclear weapons, but they have delivery devices capable of striking the United States.  And France isn’t afraid to use their weapons.  Just ask anybody in the South Pacific.  France also has biological and chemical weaponry.

            The French are nasty.  Ask anyone who’s ever been to France.  They’re rude.  If they were truly our friends, you’d think they’d be a little nicer to us.  And why do you suppose it is that they oppose our attacking Iraq?  It kind of makes you wonder whose side they’re on.

            Nobody can understand a darn word they’re saying.  Even if you’ve studied French you still don’t have a clue.  Sure, we think they’re saying something nice, but how do we know they’re not plotting to lob a 20 megaton bomb on Yourtown, USA?

            I’m certain that it will be argued that France is our ally, and I won’t deny that they are.  Now.  But how can we be certain about the future?  France has opposed us in the past.  Just look at the French-Indian War.  I offer that it’s just a matter of time before they turn on us again.  And this time it will be without warning.  Should we just sit back and wait until they catch us off guard?  Are we willing to risk all that our forefathers have fought for just out of complacency?  And what if we’re wrong?  To paraphrase Lincoln, “It would be better to err on the side of safety than to be vaporized into radioactive ash.”

Thank you.