I would like to respond to Eric Munneke’s letter to the editor on Wednesday, “U.S. right to get rid of Saddam.” We Americans are being fooled, lied to and manipulated, and I invite us to seek the truth.
Weapons of mass destruction have not been found. The commission found no real evidence of ties between Sept. 11, 2001 and Iraq. Iraq was no Germany under Hitler. The sanctions had worked, and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was isolated and no longer a legitimate threat outside its borders.
We Americans are afraid and not seeing this very clearly. There are and have always been oppressive dictators around the globe, and we have supported some of them, such as Pinochet in Chile, many others throughout Latin America and throughout the world – and even Saddam Hussein himself not long ago. History shows that we have supported some dictators and opposed others. This war has nothing to do with liberation or terrorism, and more to do with occupation, oil, control and a permanent military presence in the Middle East.
In the meantime, our troops and innocent Iraqi children and civilians are dying. The abuses at Abu Ghraib did not happen in a vacuum, separate from the conditions we set through our good versus evil belief system. We all have a dark side.
Eric Munneke asks, “Would you want a tyrant running your country?” No, and this is why we would be wise to vote George Bush out of office in November. I invite all of us to think for ourselves, investigate, read varying opinions and find our own truth. The movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” helps us see behind the lies. The truth will set us free, but first it will make us very sad and angry.
Roy Holman
Everett
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