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10 Reasons For Mistrust
I thank The Courant for printing the "10 Reasons To Trust Bush On Iraq" [Commentary, Sept. 29]. I never laughed so hard in my life. Especially when I got to No.1: "Honorable men don't go to war for selfish motives."
I decided to come up with my own top-10 list:
10. Bush will send the message to the United Nations: "Don't mess with Texas," er, make that: "Don't mess with the United States."
9. We will see once and for all how useless the Crusader artillery unit is.
8. George W. will be able to get back at Saddam Hussein for threatening his father.
7. Condoleezza Rice's former employer, Chevron, will surely benefit.
6. The war will distract everyone from the failing economy.
5. The almost certain resultant increase in terrorism in the United States will allow Bush to remove even more of our freedoms with measures like the Patriot Act, silencing dissenters in the process.
4. The military contractor Carlyle Group, whose senior advisers have included George H. W. Bush and James Baker, will make billions of dollars.
3. Dick Cheney will get a first-hand look at the pumps, manufactured by Dresser Industries, which were sold to Iraq in 1997. Dresser is a subsidiary of Halliburton, and Dick Cheney was CEO at the time of the sale.
2. The sooner the war starts, the sooner George W. can stop worrying about having to produce nonexistent evidence.
1. Oil
Chris E. Lucht
Bristol, CT
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