Yesterday, we saw the President of the United States, supported by the leader of another nation appointed only by him, tell the country that progress is being made in Iraq and that everything will be all right.  Like you, we wish that were true. 

But unlike you, we cannot sit by idly and stake the future of two countries on that hope when all facts and all logic show otherwise.  The Iron Mouth asks that all those considering voting for George W. Bush heed to the words of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln before casting your ballot in this, the most important election in seventy years.

Are you quite sure the demon which you have roused will not turn and rend you?  What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?  It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army.  These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land.  All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle.  Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.  Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.  Destroy the spirit, and you have planted the seed of despotism around your own doors. . . 

Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.