[Peace-discuss] Today News-Gazette

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

>> We must withdraw our troops from Iraq
>> Wednesday November 7, 2007
>>
>> On Oct. 30, Rodney Moorhous wrote to challenge Linda Weber's letter  
>> reporting that over a million Iraqis have been killed due to the  
>> United States invasion and war. Moorhous asks where she got her  
>> information.
>>
>> I looked into the statistics and found the number (as of Oct. 30) to  
>> be 1,099,372 Iraqis killed since March 2003. These numbers have not  
>> been reported by the mainstream press.
>>
>> The estimate that over 1 million Iraqis have died received  
>> independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in  
>> September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimate that 1.2 million  
>> Iraqis have been killed violently since the U.S. invasion.
>>
>> I doubt that Weber blames individual soldiers for this catastrophe,  
>> but we should all hold both President Bush and Congress responsible  
>> for this failed war. Moorhous claims it is irrelevant why we got in  
>> Iraq now that we are in Iraq. I find this statement most troubling. I  
>> fail to see how continuing to kill innocent people helps end  
>> terrorism.
>>
>> The majority of our citizens, Iraqis and the U.S. military say our  
>> presence should end now. Moorhous is correct. Bumper stickers won't  
>> work. The most outdated bumper sticker of all time is the one  
>> belonging to people who support this war that says to "support the  
>> troops"
>>
>> Bring the troops home now. End the war. Fund the wounded, not the war.
>>
>> ROBERT WAHLFELDT
>>
>> Urbana
>>
>> Find this article at:
>> http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2007/11/07/ 
>> we_must_withdraw_our_troops_from_iraq

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