In this morning's letters to the editor in the New Orleans Times Picayune, there is this letter from a soldier's mom. I thought you guys would find it interesting:
Though President Bush will never admit it, he was, and still is, wrong regarding Iraq.
The war in Iraq began as a personal agenda with sculpted intelligence to support it. The plans for it began before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Bush did not weigh all intelligence, only what fit pre-ordained plans to invade. Any number of other leaders, including John Kerry, Al Gore, Wesley Clark, Colin Powell and John McCain, who have seen the ugliness of war would have been better decision-makers.
It is hard to support the decisions of a man who sends other American children to war while no threat whatsoever is leveled at his own family and friends. My firstborn of seven children is over there, along with two nephews. Their lives are in peril -- for what? The objectives keep changing -- revenge for 9/11, WMDs, freedom from a dictator, voting privileges. More people hate us than ever before, so surely we are not safer from terrorism.
I refuse to say that I hate Bush, since I have never met the man. However, his domestic and foreign policies reek with a rancid stench.
How can this man tell young Americans to live as he did not, and to defend their country as he also did not?
Gilda Werner Reed
New Orleans
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