I am writing this post to my wonderful blog readers in order to ask you help me contact members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (or any Congressman) and invite them to come watch the Screening of At War in Washington D.C. at the start of the Milblog Conference. See I knew I had the best blog readers out of anyone and over the last few days you proved it. What I am asking of you now, does not cost you anything but some time.

The Screening will be at the Westin Arlington Gateway hotel on April 24th starting promptly at 6PM.

They can read reviews of the film at the following places:

www.bouhammer.com/2009/03/nys-national-guard-pao-review-of-at-war/
www.bouhammer.com/2009/03/bouhammer-review-of-at-war/

The Full Senate committee members are:

DEMOCRATS Carl Levin (Michigan) Chairman Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts) Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia) Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut) Jack Reed (Rhode Island) Daniel K. Akaka (Hawaii) Bill Nelson (Florida) Ben Nelson (Nebraska) Evan Bayh (Indiana) Jim Webb (Virginia) Claire McCaskill (Missouri) Mark Udall (Colorado) Kay R. Hagan (North Carolina) Mark Begich (Alaska) Roland W. Burris (Illinois)

REPUBLICANS John McCain (Arizona) Ranking Member James M. Inhofe (Oklahoma) Jeff Sessions (Alabama) Saxby Chambliss (Georgia) Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) John Thune (South Dakota) Mel Martinez (Florida) Roger F. Wicker (Mississippi) Richard Burr (North Carolina) David Vitter (Louisiana) Susan M. Collins (Maine)

The members of the House Committee are:

HASC Committee Members

Democrats	Republicans
Ike Skelton, Missouri, Chairman	John M. McHugh, New York, Ranking Member
John Spratt, South Carolina	Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland
Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas	Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, California
Gene Taylor, Mississippi	Mac Thornberry, Texas
Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii	Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
Silvestre Reyes, Texas	W. Todd Akin, Missouri
Vic Snyder, Arkansas	J. Randy Forbes, Virginia
Adam Smith, Washington	Jeff Miller, Florida
Loretta Sanchez, California	Joe Wilson, South Carolina
Mike McIntyre, North Carolina	Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Ellen O. Tauscher, California	Rob Bishop, Utah
Robert A. Brady, Pennsylvania	Michael Turner, Ohio
Robert Andrews, New Jersey	John Kline, Minnesota
Susan A. Davis, California	Mike Rogers, Alabama
James R. Langevin, Rhode Island	Trent Franks, Arizona
Rick Larsen, Washington	Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania
Jim Cooper, Tennessee	Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington
Jim Marshall, Georgia	Michael Conaway, Texas
Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Guam	Doug Lamborn, Colorado
Brad Ellsworth, Indiana	Rob Wittman, Virginia
Patrick Murphy, Pennsylvania	Mary Fallin, Oklahoma
Hank Johnson, Georgia	Duncan Hunter, California
Carol Shea-Porter, New Hampshire	John Fleming, Louisiana
Joe Courtney, Connecticut	Mike Coffman, Colorado
David Loebsack, Iowa	Tom Rooney, Florida
Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania
Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona
Niki Tsongas, Massachusetts
Glenn Nye, Virginia
Chellie Pingree, Maine
Larry Kissell, North Carolina
Martin Heinrich, New Mexico
Frank M. Kratovil, Jr., Maryland
Eric J.J. Massa, New York
Bobby Bright, Alabama

I am sure they would love to hear from you, especially if you live in their state. The reality is this, I don’t think they are going to write up a review and help spread the word about this movie. What they are going to do is become educated on what life is really like over there and get a better appreciation of combat in Afghanistan through a soldier’s eyes. Something I think they should have in order to make informed decisions about funding our soldiers and the wars they fight.

Personally I am sick and tired of hearing our elected representatives making decisions on bills and legislation without “really” reading them or understanding them. Here is a chance for them to spend a meager 2 hours out of their evening to gain more education than they could from a briefing in Kabul or Bagram. And they won’t even need to waste thousands of dollars and waste our military’s time to do it. In fact, they will be lucky enough to hang out with a room full of milbloggers.

If any are interested and have more questions, please tell them they can contact me at troy@bouhammer.com with any questions that they may have.