Letter writer is the one who’s off-base on war
Dispatch, Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I am quite disappointed in the writer of the May 7 letter "Mayor’s TV interview was disappointing." Since reading it, I have found myself questioning the author’s ability to comprehend the Iraqi conflict.
If memory serves me correctly, America went to Iraq to find the infamous weapons of mass destruction, as well as to destroy the ties between Iraq and the international war on terror. Well, it has been over a year and we have not found one weapon or a single piece of evidence that links Iraq to al-Qaida or any other international terror organization that compromises America’s freedom.
Of course, the world is safer since Saddam Hussein was toppled. It is audacious, however, for someone to question Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s accurate response on Fox News about a war based on false pretenses.
Let’s face it: The only person who knows the real reason we are in Iraq works in the White House. Freeing the 24 million Iraqis was not our purpose; it is the consequence. If it was our mission, then to be consistent, bring on North Korea, China and Iran.
GREGORY DONELSON
Hilliard
Concerning the May 19 letter about the Iraq War; it would be easy to label Mr. Donelson as ignorant and ill-informed, but that would be unfair. Unfair because it is clear that he receives his information from the mainstream media (where liberal reporters and editors strive to keep him in the dark). He would have to work hard to notice the story on the unmarked 155mm shell that contained a gallon of sarin nerve agent (buried on page A7 in the May 18 Dispatch). They also found another unmarked shell containing mustard gas. Had he been watching Fox News or read newspapers such as the Washington Times, he would have known this.
About the links between Iraq and al-Qaida; clearly he hasn't read anything by Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard ("Case Closed," November 24, 2003). Or perhaps he was too busy watching the hundreds of Abu Ghraib prison photos to notice that Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a known al-Qaida terrorist, was responsible for beheading Nick Berg while in Iraq. I could cite many more examples of Saddam/Iraq/al-Qaida ties.
I urge Mr. Donelson, and all liberals to step into the light and stop watching ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/PBS for your news, stop reading the New York Times…the world will look much different and much clearer to you.
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