Osama should have been the first target

Are we Americans satisfied now that we have liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s clutches? Are the Iraqis happier now that we have liberated them?

We have more than 1,000 casualties among our troops and consequently as many families in mourning and more than 7,000 wounded, many maimed for life. Innocent people beheaded and Iraqi civilians are counted among the casualties.

Who can be pleased by this kind of quagmire existing in Iraq? Does anyone see the light at the end of the tunnel? The situation existing in Iraq is no more a liberation incursion, it is a full-blown war that is costing us dearly in human lives and is draining our finances, which are very much needed at home.

This chaos had stemmed from our leaders who, wrongly informed, wanted to believe that Saddam Hussein had the weapons of mass destruction, despite the reports given to them by the experts who had visited Iraq many times and had not found them.

Now we, in the states, have learned first-hand how terrorists act. Now we are on alert and look over our shoulders as the threat of an attack will always be in our mind.

By catching Saddam we have destroyed the tail of the serpent. By nabbing Osama bin Laden we would have shot the head of the snake.

Maybe we should have first dealt with Osama, then gone on to liberate Iraq.

Sylvana Maakad

Arlington