And Only Victory Matters
Frank LoPinto / Reader Roundtable Opinion
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051011/RTD/51011005
[The above link was shared by Linda Zoblotsky [TX] and the below commentary is her reply to Frank LoPinto's article. Which she kindly shares with us here at FOFF.]
Frank did not post his email address, so I wrote a letter to the editor ... I am responding to the pro-war consensus statement made by Frank LoPinto. Frank correctly states that in Washington among the President and Congress there is a pro-war consensus. It was a pro-war consensus that the American people had to choose from in the 2004 elections, as John Kerry stood on the stump and tried to sell to the American public a smarter war in Iraq. With the billions spent, the high technology utilized by the U.S. military at a vast profit to those companies which stand to gain from the services that they provide in Iraq, and with the dead numbering in the thousands, there is NO smart war in Iraq.
The Consensus in Congress is to spend even more money in Iraq. The Consensus among the awakening people in the United States, Iraq and those around the world who protested this war from the beginning is that working men and women have nothing to gain from the war in Iraq. Frank has attempted to make the case that the war in Iraq makes us safer, but as long as the United States creates enemies with a faulty preemptive war policy, the U.S. government will announce terror threats and color codes. The war in Iraq did not begin in March of 2003. Under the Clinton Administration, the United States dropped 450 bombs on Iraq. This greatly weakened Saddam's army and still we are not winning the war on the ground in Iraq or in the minds of the people around the world.
Over 100,000 service men and women have returned from Iraq to visit U.S. hospitals. Frank, would the United States be safer if President Bush's daughters fought in Iraq? Frank, would the United States be safer if you went to Iraq or lost a loved one in Iraq? How many must die to end forever the war on terror? Do the math!
