The carnage continues. Every single day, hundreds of Iraqi civilians are killed, in bombs of various sorts. Shopping centers, mosques, wherever. Our helicopters shot down seemingly willy-nilly. Beheaded bodies found along the roads. Several million of the middle-class Iraqis have fled the country, in fear for their lives.
The various Iraqi factions apparently will not try to get along. "You bomb my mosque, and I'll bomb your mosque." Why should any more of our soldiers have to give their lives for this catastrophic Bush-Cheney mistake?
The president, instead of taking the advice of the bipartisan commission, spent weeks consulting with the same people who gave him bad advice to begin with, then being the "great decider" responded to the antiwar sentiment in last November's election by escalating U.S. involvement in Iraq.
That was not the voters' message. Vice President Cheney, apparently living in a fantasy world, sees "tremendous progress" being made. The bottom line is that horror stories continue to spew out of Iraq on a daily basis.
Our leaders need to stop pretending that the insanity of our continued involvement in this ruinous war is worth the lives of any more of our soldiers. That massive amount of money dissolving into the Arabian sands could be used for education, health care, housing, roads and bridges here at home. What could a trillion or more do if it wasn't wasted in this lost cause?
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And now, it seems that those same hotshots are looking for a case in engaging Iran.
God help us!
Flo Pendergrast
Willmar
