Letter to the Editor
Editor,
In response to the Oct. 9 Turnstile $87 Billion for the Iraq war
we should have taken the original $80 billion we have already spent on Iraq put it into a warplane, and instead of dropping bombs, we should of dropped the money, and attached to the money we should of put a little note saying If you cooperate with us meaning not kill us then we will drop another $80 billion because that's how much we were going to spend to kill anyone in the way of Saddam Hussein while we destroy your country anyway.
Maybe if we dropped money rather than bombs, 277 and counting of our soldiers would not have been killed, along with the 1,500 and counting Iraqi civilians. Not to mention we could have solved our disputes with Iraq in an expensive but peaceful, lifesaving way. Spending another $87 billion on the war will not help flush out the remaining members of the Baathist regime, especially considering we don't know who they are.
Money is not our problem in the war. It was the knowledge and underestimate of the post-war by the Bush administration. We went to war on fictitious assumptions, $87 billion is not going to buy us out of that argument. We can't find the weapons of mass destruction because they don't exist. I'm convinced of this because if our intelligence is reliable enough to get us into war then I think they are reliable enough to find the weapons that have cost this county so many lives. Do people not realize that almost every day an American soldier is getting killed in Iraq, and all our president has to say is that we need more money.
Mr. Reed, I don't know your reasoning on how $87 billion will help bring peace to the Middle East either. Even if Iraq is rebuilt with a democratic government it will in no way, shape or form stop Israel and Palestine from committing acts of terrorism on each other. Israel and Palestine have been flirting with peace talks for years, not because the United States invaded Iraq. $87 billion is not going to bring peace to the Middle East nor will it save lives. It will only put our country into more debt than we are already in. If Bush wants $87 billion then maybe he shouldn't have cut $1.3 trillion in taxes, so that all of the millionaires in this country could buy another Swiss Yacht.
This whole war was a mistake, and obviously we have to fix it now. This mistake may cost us more than $160 billion. I very well know that this money was well needed in our own country. Can't you tell by the increasingly unaffordable college tuition hikes that we are facing? If I had to choose what to do with $87 billion there would be a lot more starving people eating, unfortunate people going to college, and sick people getting Health Care. Compare this to more bombs, civilian and U.S. soldier deaths, and ruined international agreements.
Bush, if you want $87 billion get it back from your rich buddies you were so willing to cut taxes for. I'm sure they will be happy to give it back.
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