Get A Clue
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Re: Rick Bradley
After reading Mr. Bradley's recent letters, I was going to take the time to refute his ridiculous and xenophobic assertions, point by point. But after realizing he still seems to be unaware that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, I realized it's pointless.
The attacks, which killed 2,973 people, were masterminded by Osama bin Laden. That's the same guy we stopped tracking in Afghanistan when George Bush decided he wanted to invade Iraq, which coincidentally is the same Iraq that had nothing to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Mr. Bradley quoted President Dwight D. Eisenhower in one of his letters, so I'll do the same: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." The Pentagon estimates the Iraq invasion and occupation (a war of choice) has cost $600 billion so far and will undoubtedly top the $1 trillion mark before it's over, if not more. I'm guessing that money would feed and clothe quite a few people. Or build better levees in New Orleans and Iowa.
It's people like Mr. Bradley - and his president - that make the rest of the world dislike the United States. Bush has sacrificed the lives of more than 4,100 American soldiers, undermined the financial stability of this country and trampled over the Constitution with the Iraq debacle. Mr. Bradley has chosen to remain clueless about it all, buying into whatever Fox News or Rush Limbaugh spoonfeed him. They all need to get a clue.
Matt Perry
San Diego, Calif., via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
Re: Rick Bradley
After reading Mr. Bradley's recent letters, I was going to take the time to refute his ridiculous and xenophobic assertions, point by point. But after realizing he still seems to be unaware that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, I realized it's pointless.
The attacks, which killed 2,973 people, were masterminded by Osama bin Laden. That's the same guy we stopped tracking in Afghanistan when George Bush decided he wanted to invade Iraq, which coincidentally is the same Iraq that had nothing to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Mr. Bradley quoted President Dwight D. Eisenhower in one of his letters, so I'll do the same: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." The Pentagon estimates the Iraq invasion and occupation (a war of choice) has cost $600 billion so far and will undoubtedly top the $1 trillion mark before it's over, if not more. I'm guessing that money would feed and clothe quite a few people. Or build better levees in New Orleans and Iowa.
It's people like Mr. Bradley - and his president - that make the rest of the world dislike the United States. Bush has sacrificed the lives of more than 4,100 American soldiers, undermined the financial stability of this country and trampled over the Constitution with the Iraq debacle. Mr. Bradley has chosen to remain clueless about it all, buying into whatever Fox News or Rush Limbaugh spoonfeed him. They all need to get a clue.
Matt Perry
San Diego, Calif., via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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