Editor,
Todd J. Burns' letter on Tuesday asks that we support our soldiers, whether we agree with invading Iraq or not, and that we help them come home to their families and friends.
No one has anything against the soldiers. The fastest way for them to be with their families is not to go. We don't want them to go. Did anyone ever hear the saying: "Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?" That's what myself and most anti-war protesters want and we want our troops to think about it.
We have asked the people and troops of Iraq not to follow their leader. I say we should ask our troops and fellow citizens not to follow a bad leader, a corrupt and venal man who wants to see a pipeline built across Iraq to take his family's oil to shipping tankers. We should not support a man who will profit from the deaths of our citizens in a war to secure the flow of oil to the United States.
This is a man who engaged in illegal insider trading and uses the war on terrorism to deflect criticism of his corruption and stupidity. We should not invade Iraq; we must stop the ongoing war on Iraq. Iraq did not send terror to this country; we should concentrate on those that did. We should have George Bush impeached for violating the Constitution of our United States and putting the interests of his oil buddies and family above the interests of our security.
The safety of our soldiers and the security of our country demands that we stop the "no-fly-zone" bombing and the blockade of Iraq, which are acts of war. I say this to my family and friends in the services: Fight terrorism and fascism, don't fight for oil.
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Terry Mulcahy
UNM staff
