Stars & Stripes letter: We ARE at war based on a lie

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‘No gee-whiz supersecrets’

It seems a few lieutenants at Camp Liberty (where the biggest hazard is tripping over a rock and burning your hand with a Cinnabon coffee) have their facts twisted (“Officer discredited Army” and “Saddam’s lie, not ours,” letters, Dec. 2). We are at a war based on a lie. There are no weapons of mass destruction, there was no Saddam/al-Qaida link, and there are still no gee-whiz supersecrets to Saddam’s arsenal. He was simply bluffing in order to keep Iran in check (a task we’ll have to inherit thanks to our invasion).

Congrats people, we’ve done it again, broken a country and now we’ll have to fix it. And Iraq too! If we were in the evil-regime-evicting business, why not start with Iran? They’re building nukes! How about North Korea? Where are all of the “cowboys” now? We’ve seen all of the faux-patriotic country songs with the videos of tanks and helicopters blowing the crap out of already-half-dead villages and terrified civilians. How about that same video, say, in Tehran, Iran, or Pyongyang, North Korea?

It’s just like a politician said: “Invading Iraq in response to Sept. 11 would have been the same as invading Mexico in response to Pearl Harbor.”

Sorry, lieutenants, kissing up in Stars and Stripes won’t get you your O-3 train tracks. How about using your freedom to think a little bit? Isn’t that one of the freedoms we’re fighting for?

Sgt. Raheim Azadi
Abu Ghraib, Iraq


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