[Peace-discuss] Today News-Gazette

[Ricky Baldwin]

Excellent letter!  Thanks for sharing it!

--- Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com> wrote:

> >> 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 The most outdated bumper sticker of all time is the one  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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