Fantastic, fantastic letter!
For anyone who plans to use it for their local paper, I suggest using this punctuation for the quote from Ron Paul:
"Let me get this straight: We borrow $10 billion from China, give it to Musharaf, a military dictator who overthrew an elected official, [then] we lose lives fighting a war [pause] to spread Democracy [pause] in Iraq? What's going on here!?”
Punctuating it that way and including the pauses helps reproduce in print how he really said it.