Dear Senator Bayh: it is time to leave Iraq. Our actions are breeding more terror. The Iraqi's cannot build a new system while co-opting with the US. Our soldiers are coming home to an inadequate national health care system. We are spending our future.

You and Mr. Bush may be out of office when the bills come due, but you, your kids, your grandkids, and we will all be paying for this budget killing fiasco called the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We should leave now. While I agree with HR 55 in calling for a departure and timetable, I think we should not wait til Dec. 2006 to leave.

We should leave now. AND, we should pick up all our trash, ie., if we brought it in, we should pack it out and not leave a mess behind.

We can do it. Let's do it this summer. If for no one else, let us do it for the country especially the families who have lost members this past two weeks. Their loved ones are listed at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/2005.06.html

Best regards

Ellyn Stecker, MD. For the Michiana Peace and Justice Coalition, 1036 N. Niles So. Bend, IN 46617. 574-532-8166.