President Bush continues to describe our military operation in Iraq as part of the war on terror. The president said we had to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein was supporting al-Qaida terrorists, and that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that Saddam could provide to al-Qaida. However, the 9-11 Commission found no evidence of collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaida. And no stockpiles of WMD have been found in the 16 months since the president announced “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
The invasion of Iraq seems more like a personal vendetta by President Bush, his own “war on Saddam.” This misguided use of our military has taken the lives of more than 1,000 U.S. service personnel and cost the U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion so far, with no end in sight. And our invasion of Iraq has done nothing to defeat our true enemy, al-Qaida, and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
Eric Selby
Lake Stevens
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