A letter I just sent to my local paper

[OldSoldier]

I sent this letter to my local newspaper after reading "One More Bogus Story":

One of Mark Twain's best quotes was the one about lies, damn lies and statistics.

What does a damn lie look like? This is from an article written by Bob Drogin of the L.A. Times and published on August 28: "Frustrated at the failure to find Saddam Hussein's suspected stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have launched a major effort to determine if they were victims of bogus Iraqi defectors who planted disinformation to mislead the West before the war.

"As evidence, officials say former Iraqi operatives have confirmed since the war that Hussein's regime sent "double agents" disguised as defectors to the West to plant fabricated intelligence. In other cases, Baghdad apparently tricked legitimate defectors into funneling phony tips about weapons production and storage sites."

Are we talking about the same Saddam Hussein that ran Iraq? The one whose only interest is self preservation? Why would he send double agents into our government's hands to tell them what they wanted to hear, so they'd be justified in going into his country to try to kill him?

The truth is that he would not. The truth is that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and haven't been since they were destroyed during or in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm. The truth is that George Bush and his advisors repeatedly and brazenly lied about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction to start this war. The truth is that over 300 soldiers, and uncountable thousands of Iraq's citizens, have died because of these lies.

And the truth is that George W. Bush, and every member of his administration, needs to go to jail for life over this. Impeachment is not good enough.

[QC]

1. Excellent!

[RC]

2. A federal lock up while awaiting trial in the World Court.

Treason, Crimes against humananity, Grand theft. And that is just to hold them!

[dand]

3. BRILLIANT!!!!!

Here is a salute from an old Marine:bounce:

[liberalmuse]

4. Wahoo!

Let us know when this gets published. Great letter!

[lanlady]

5. great letter, oldsoldier

I hope it's printed, and I love your logic. Yes, apparently the Busheviks would have us believe that Saddam set up double agents to work against his own interests. :crazy:

[avtho]

6. If your local paper

is truly only a very local paper, please send carbon of letters like this to someone like USA Today, so it gets national exposure. Good letters to the editor writers are necessary to get these points across to the lambs, ie. sheep.

[avtho]

7. If your local paper

is truly only a very local paper, please send carbon of letters like this to someone like USA Today, so it gets national exposure. Good letters to the editor writers are necessary to get these points across to the lambs, ie. sheep.

[bpilgrim]

8. "Impeachment is not good enough." - you said it!

very well :toast:

peace