Letter(s) of the Day

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British memo: More evidence that case for Iraq war was a charade

Regarding the call for an inquiry into the Iraq war in the Register's May 20 editorial, "Iraq-War Inquiry Still Needed": Good for you. The lack of response by the American people to overwhelming evidence that the war in Iraq was not only immoral, as stated by past and present popes, is now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by the Downing Street Memo to be illegal and worthy of impeachment.

Multiple "investigations" and knowledge of this "war" have brought this charade to the light of day. Many have known this from the beginning and are not saying "I told you so" because it is so tragic.

To those who say we have to finish the job I ask, what is the job we are finishing? Like lemmings leaping off cliffs to their death, what is the thinking in pouring more gasoline on the fire? More American and Iraqi lives and billions of dollars that could do a world of good sacrificed for exactly what?

It is also clear that the U.S. presence in Iraq is only bringing more pain and suffering to the common folk of this devastated country. The people there do not want the U.S. form of democracy forced down their throat. All parties would be better served by American withdrawal and a full investigation into the rationale and the decision-makers who brought us to this point.

-Rodger Routh,
Ankeny.

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The editorial about the Downing Street Memo, wherein lies the evidence that President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had the Iraq war planned many months in advance of the attack, says: "Perhaps it doesn't matter. The lack of uproar in this country over the Downing Street Memo suggests that the public is more interested in completing the mission successfully than in rehashing how it began. Indeed, that's where the focus should be."

So what that thousands of Iraqis are dead and thousands more wounded and poisoned with depleted uranium? So what that more than 1,600 of the coalition troops are dead and thousands more wounded and poisoned with depleted uranium. What matters is "completing the mission."

If the Register's readers want to know what that mission is, go to the Project for The New American Century's Web site, and they'll find out all about it. The reason there's a "lack of uproar" is that not many U.S. newspapers have even mentioned the story.

If you watch CNN, you definitely have not heard anything. And that, fellow Americans, is your media hard at work to keep you ignorant - and that should matter a great deal to all.

-Anne Johnson,
Cedar Falls.

attribution of both

the downing street memo should be bringing this president, and his team of robber barons, to account for the pilfering of our national treasury, and for the murders of nearly 1700 American men and women, not to mention the injuries caused to some 15,000 American men and women, and some 200,000 iraqis.