Sometimes the letters are better than the articles.
We are not more secure
In the summer before the 2002 elections, Bush & Co. bamboozled the country, stating flatly that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and was finishing a bomb. They demanded Iraq prove it had no weapons of mass destruction.
Being smart men, they knew that one cannot logically prove a negative, such as innocence.
Now, after nearly a year of searching in Iraq, the United States' former head weapons inspector, David Kay, says: no weapons, no weapons plants and indirect evidence that weapons of mass destruction had been quietly destroyed.
We have eliminated the one powerful, openly secular Arab who stood against Osama bin Laden -- Saddam Hussein. In his place, we have suicide bombers, a powerful, ambitious ayatollah and an Arab world that hates us more even as it controls 70 percent of the world's oil.
How, in the face of all this, does President Bush have the nerve to say we are more secure?
JIM TIERNEY Vernonia
oregonlive.com
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