Embarrassment In Iraq

My brother and I are veterans, my sons are both veterans, and my grandson is now serving in the armed forces. We all believe in protecting our country against attack, but we don't believe in marching into an unarmed country, like Iraq (which had nothing to do with 9/11) and killing people who don't agree that we should be there.

How do we glorify this into "fighting for our freedom"? Every excuse that Bush used to start this war was false. His brilliant cake walk to Baghdad and his "Mission Accomplished" were an embarrassment before the whole world. By whining for help in Iraq, Bush has proved to the world how weak and vulnerable we are. After firing Rumsfeld, Bush is now busy firing anyone else who disagrees.

He didn't learn one thing from the recent elections. If we need to help handling the tiny, unarmed country of Iraq, we should be saving all our manpower and resources for a real war that could threaten our freedom. By stealing money from schools, highways, social security, the VA and farmers, Bush has run up a deficit that our children and grandchildren will be paying.

Robert G. Schultze

Riggins