Fwd: [Peace-discuss] Susan Davis letter

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Susan Davis letter
>
> Susan Davis has an excellent letter to the editor in today's  
> News-Gazette regarding our occupation of Iraq. She says it exactly  
> right, sticking to the facts and avoiding ideology.
>
> Bob
Iraq war is lost, time to bring troops home

Sunday July 22, 2007

The United States is spending $12 billion a month on the war in Iraq, a  
war that everyone except the Bush administration agrees is a lost  
cause. Far too late, the administration and congressional leaders are  
feeling the pressure from their own constituents to pull out of the  
quagmire they've made.

Unfortunately, Bush is asleep at the wheel, and Congress is driving  
sideways. The congressional plan is to tell Americans that a withdrawal  
will soon be under way, denying meanwhile that they are building the  
structure of a permanent occupation. Our leaders envision pulling back  
combat troops to bases on Iraq's periphery, leaving "counterterrorism"  
and "security" forces on the ground.

In other words, the withdrawal will not be a withdrawal at all. This is  
the Henry Kissinger plan that kept young American men dying in Vietnam  
for years after the war was supposedly over.

It's up to all of us, with letters and phone calls and demonstrations,  
to push our elected officials toward a real and just end to this  
criminal enterprise. Bring all the troops home now.

  SUSAN DAVIS

Urbana
  Find this article at:
   
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2007/07/22/ 
iraq_war_is_lost_time_to_bring_troops

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