I think I'll hold back on commenting. These letters speak volumes for themselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/opinion/l22kerry.htmlTo the Editor:
For someone who changes his mind every time the wind blows, John Kerry is the last person who should be criticizing someone else's judgment (front page, Sept. 21).
Mr. Kerry says the war in Iraq shouldn't be part of the war on terrorism, yet that's where a major part of the problem was.
The world is a safer place with Saddam Hussein gone. The Iraqi people are no longer being oppressed under the rule of an insane dictator.
It's easy for Mr. Kerry to say now that the war was unjustified because we haven't found weapons of mass destruction, but every major intelligence agency told us that Iraq had them.
And just because Iraq wasn't connected to 9/11 doesn't mean that it didn't pose a terrorist threat to the rest of world.
Jamie Valeriano
Wexford, Pa., Sept. 21, 2004
To the Editor:
One important factor that John Kerry's statement only alludes to is popular world opinion of our preventive war on Iraq.
The Bush administration is not fully credited by many outside this country as a legitimate government, but rather as one that came to power by means of a judicial coup.
A victory by President Bush in this election, perceived as legitimate, will change that perception irrevocably and be seen a declaration of war by the American people themselves.
We have opened the gates of hell in Iraq and now have the opportunity to do so on a global scale.
Christopher D. Countey
New York, Sept. 21, 2004