Hello Mr. President,

    Let me first reintroduce myself.  My name is Bradford C. Smoot.  I am a 28-year-old Black American.  I am currently a team leader for the Republican Party.  To date this is my 4^th correspondence to you.  On that note I would like to take this time to show and say Thank You for the responses you have given me to date. I realize the fact that you may never have seen or read any of my letters that I have sent.    But I thank you and your staff for any and all replies that were received.  Anytime you make a Human being feel Appreciated And Wanted it makes them or I feel good.  As I said before this is my 4^th correspondence.  I have always stated my support for and your plan.  With all that we face in America Today, I feel the most pressing issue at this time is the war on terror, and are mission in Iraq.  With all that is being said and done----- I now feel compelled more than ever to contact you.  Mr. President the Country, you, and I are now at a crossroad.    As my President I know you deal every day with the problems that affect my freedom and the peace of the world.  And their are those that say we need a massive troop increase, and their are those that say we need to cut are looses and run.  In other words we can go Left Or Right.  In my opinion Mr. President we should do neither.  In My Opinion we should plow straight ahead.  The road we travel is a road never traveled before.  It is time now to write the next chapter and to write it in the books of History, and Freedom.  We are now engaged in “The Great War On Terror”.    I believe that we think that a massive troop increase takes bourdon from the Iraqi defense force to help themselves, and we believe that a cut and run policy would result in Word Wide Peril.    If the Teorist world find out that we will not pursue are commitment to the end I don’t know were they would stay their hand.  In other words how we react in Iraqi would show how we would react under pressures and treaties in the rest of the world.    The reputation of the United States for Fidelity peace and freedom is not a simple question of face and prestige, But a real pillar of peace in the world.  I know this Mr. President.  WE do not seek victory of conquest, but we do seek the triumph of Freedom and Justice.  The problem I believe is the War on Terror is an unconventional war.  It is unconventional in the sense that it lack’s a specific battlefield this is truly a war without boundaries.  For most the last 2,000 years war has meant something very conventional and traditional.  The current war on terror however, is unconventional and untraditional type conflict.  It is a war against multiple enemies not just one adversary.  Wars usually end with the vanquishing of an opponent with some form of armistice or truce.  But not this time.  We must understand that the War On Terror isn’t just a symbolic call to arm’s- but it has real world implications.  This is what I believe Mr. President.  This is not a time for timid souls and trembling spirits.    As President you have helped spread democracy to two nations and freed over 50 million Muslims.  Great nations of the world are continuing or moving toward the door to democracy through the door of freedom.  The people of the world are moving toward democracy through the door to prosperity.  The people of the world agitate for free expression and free thought through the door to a moral   and intellectual satisfaction that only liberty allows.  We know what work’s, freedom work’s.  We know what’s right freedom is right.  We know how to secure a more prosperous and just life for men and women on earth through free market, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.   I know you do not find it easy to see are brave young men and women into battle.    But I know that you know them all you have seen them in a thousand states of a hundred towns and in ever state of this union.  Working and laughing and building and field with hope and life.  I know you know how their mothers fell and how the family’s sorrow.  And this is the most agonizing a decision your President is faced with. I have spoken to you today of the major issue that I think effects America and the World today.  As I stated in the beginning.  I believe that we, you, I and our Country are at a crossroad.  We can go left, right, or plow straight ahead.   I believe the latter5 is the best!  The enemy is not yet beaten, but he knows he has met his master in the field.  He is trying to bide time hoping that are nation that are nation’s will does not match his will.  In closing Mr. President it is important for America to understand that If American lives must end and American treasure be spilled in country’s that we barley know.  Than that is the price that Freedom has demanded of conviction and of our enduring covenant.  Thank you for your time and please give the first lady my best.  Gooday to you Mr. President.  May god continue to bless you and this great country called the United States of America.