In spite of America’s voice in the recent election and in polls, the loss of the 3,000th American in Iraq, the troops who have already had their Iraq tours extended and re-extended, and the Iraq Study Group Report, Mr. Bush has decided to ignore us and escalate his fiasco in Iraq.
His naive notion of throwing good lives after lost ones cannot stop the ages-old Sunni/Shiite blood feud. Nor, as we’ve seen, can terrorism be defeated by military means. Escalating the war would only cost more of our troops their lives and promote more anti-American terrorism.
Has Mr. Bush earned our trust and our confidence? Now, like an alcoholic who says he only wants one more drink, Bush claims that sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq — many to injury or their death — will satisfy him. Yeah, right.
Are we willing to speak up to defend our troops, our security, our honor, and our economy from Bush’s bloody blundering? Please tell your members of Congress that it is more important to save our troops’ lives than to save Bush’s face.
Doug Long Rio Rancho, NM
Building objections over construction
Editor:
Linda Jassim’s glowing letter to the editor (“Lovin’ that SaMo architecture,” page 4, Jan. 11) regarding the city’s new four story low-income housing project at 15th (Street) and Broadway was deficient in the following respects: She failed to mention 1) Her husband is the architect who designed the building. 2) Her husband’s firm received over $500,000 from the city to design the project. 3) The homeowners who live in the adjacent single family dwellings are outraged over the huge scale of the building. 4) The recycled cans, a decorative element, include numerous beer cans that inappropriately advertise beer to minors. Perhaps not “amusing and delightful” to some.
With those omissions taken into consideration, who thinks her comments are objective?
Mathew Millen Santa Monica
Business of war
Editor:
Bush wants to send more troops to his lost cause in Iraq. Back in Vietnam, we kept sending men to die for a lost cause. Finally, we wised up and left. The North invaded the South, which collapsed so fast that even the North was surprised. A good businessman knows when it is time to give up, cut his losses and get out. Not that Bush was ever much of a businessman either.
