Letter of the WeeQ

Last year in the United States, heart disease caused 696,947 deaths, cancer 557,271, tobacco 435,000, medical errors 250,000, alcohol 85,000, air pollution 60,000, firearms 29,000 and terrorists 0.

You are in more danger from lightning, sharks, mosquitoes or falling airplane parts than from terrorists. For any significant terrorism in the United States, you have to go back to 9/11.

Terrorism is being used as a boogie man by the far right to scare people into giving up their constitutional rights and freedom. There was no al-Qaida in Iraq before the war. Even now, according to the Pentagon, only 5 percent of the resistance in Iraq are foreign jihadists.

That means 95 percent of the resistance consists of Iraqi citizens who feel they are fighting to expel a foreign invader. How can President George Bush claim that his war is to bring freedom when the current U.S. government provides aid to about 43 dictatorships worldwide, including Saudi Arabia, where most of the 9/11 terrorists originated?
— Jay Miller, Hills.

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