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Robert Ketterhagen of Boulder writes:

I’ve visited Representative Mark Udall"s office many times over the past year. Usually, I"ve had a “concerned” representative of Representative Udall responding to my queries about the necessity of the Iraq war. On Thursday Sept. 20, I was greeted by an empty desk with a microphone on it. As my friends addressed their grievances about the war to Mr. Microphone, I noticed the staff busily going to and fro attending to very important business, no doubt!
Never mind the maiming and destruction of a people in a far away land Poor Mr. Udall, with 600,000 constituents to deal with, how can he waste time on Iraq. He’s stated his case, he supports the troops, although he doesn’t elaborate. I assume he supports the tens of thousands of soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder, and the tens of thousands of maimed and injured, and the 3880 body bags, and the fact that most soldiers know not what they’re fighting for nor whom they are fighting! On top of all this, he has to raise campaign funds for his Senate bid! BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!
Never mind the maiming and destruction of a people in a far away land!

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READER COMMENTS

Sounds like the staff grew tired of the constant whining.

can you believe that someone from the republic of boulder is not getting all they want from one of their elected liberals?
now that is funny.
what is the approval rating of the dumonut held congress 11% or has it dropped to single digits yet?

The commenter should be more worried about the culture of corruption that is so prevalint in Washington. One that Mark udall is in. Not covered by the rocky but released was the fact mark udall also accepted money from Norman tsu(?). Over $1000.00 dollars. Now there has been no repoprt on whether or not Mark is going to return these illegal funds, donate them to a charity, launder the money like Hillary, or just simpley keep this illegal money.

Robert, I am quite sure that I disagree with you on almost everything, but I do not doubt your intent to influence change for the better. For that reason, I will ask you- Don't You Get It, Yet? POLITICIANS DON"T GIVE A RAT'S PATOOTIE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK- only enough to get elected. It's a business, not a service to their country, like it used to be. They are all running for Santa Claus, as the late Paul Tsongas once wisely said, and will make our dreams come true if only we will put them in power. Politicians and political activist groups use us all to stay in business- there's nothing like polarizing people against one another to really keep the cash register chinging! I still vote for the person I think is most in line with my ideas, but It doesn't surprise me when they let me down. So, my suggestion to you is to stop wasting time during the day congregating at his office and get better, (if you all have any) jobs, and when you contribute LOTS of money to his campaign, he will pay attention to you and smile and lie to your face, instead of behind your back.

Mr. Ketterhagen,

I am admittedly confused by your letter. You visited Mr. Udall's office to express your queries of the necessity of the war in Iraq, sounds like a number of times over this past year. Are you honestly writing a letter to complain about your representative not responding to your continuous queries about why the United States military needs to stay in Iraq?

If that is your main point, I think I may be able to help you out a bit in language that you can understand. In one word, it is STABILITY. As an example, one in which you should be able to identify, imagine if a small group of Christians moved to Boulder, took over the local Government, made policy that was not only unfair to the majority, but also killed and imprisoned the "average Boulderite" like yourself, whom is just expressing concern about what is happening. Then, in from Fort Collins comes the Sheriffs Department and they remove those radical Christians from Government in Boulder, but your fellow Boulderites are still pretty steamed at the left over Christians, who have treated you so poorly, and the Christians are pretty miffed that they no longer have any power. So, some of the Boulderites fight with some of the Christians, and the poor Ft. Collins Sheriffs Deputies are left to try and control all the mess, that obviously the Boulder Co Sheriffs Dept has no ability to control.

Would you still want to have the Deputies from Ft. Collins there, to help you out, or would you rather just see civil unrest based on political and religious philosophy? Did that help at all, or was this all still way over your head?

John Salazar is the only Colorado congressional rep, that has ever served in military uniform. It shows too. How can a politician be expected to care about troops and veterans, when they passed on their opportunity to serve.

Colorado has more than 400K military veterans, who lack any type of political clout. The Salazar brothers are classic examples of politicians using their office, only for their own fiancial gain. Thes two bozos voted in congress for their own federal farm subsidy ($484K federal welfare for criminal illegal Mexican farm workers). They abandon desperate and disabled Rocky Flats workers (Perlmutter/DeGone too).

The Salazar's were also AWOL-MIA when the state's GOP posse stole the $14 billion in federal funds, which fueled our T-REX, Fas Tracks, CBMS, and Fitzsimons redevelopment porjects (Fitz was a faitrh-based initiative "cash-cow" for Mitt and the Mormon Church).

Veterans federal job and contracting preferences in these projects were vaporized by criminal Dems and GOP. I saw far more criminal illgal Mexicans working these projects, than I saw veterans. Black vets weren't allowed to even sharecrop in these projects, despite our political leaders like Groff and Hammond. I'm tired of being a "nappyheaded-HO" for Mormons, Mexican gov't, Vatican, GOP draft-dodgers, etc.

Will somebody PLEASE give JJ, draftdodger, give me my mule etc. what he wants so that he will stop promoting his own agenda into every topic that comes up? I thank him for his service but please enough is enough!

This is fun isn't it?

Udall, as all Democrats apparently are, a puppet of the far left liberal puppet masters like George Soros. Anti- American if you will, and even if you won't.

When are you guys going to learn? If you keep voting for either of these two parties, you'll keep getting the same results. Back in my day, if a guy failed at a job, whatever it was, he didn't get promoted. So why do we keep doing it now? Vote for a third party for a change. These democrats and republicans have sold us out.

Amen anonymous poster at 1:18 pm. I have been saying that for a LONG time!

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