Monday, December 12, 2005
Dear Senator Lieberman..
Thanks to Information Clearing House for flagging this one:
Letters to the Editor for Monday, November 28, 2005
Stars and Stripes
European and Mideast editions
(EDITOR’S NOTE: These are the letters that appeared in each edition of Stripes on this publication date. Click here to jump ahead to the Pacific edition letters)
War based on a lie
Weapons of mass destruction? I’m still looking for them, and if you find any give me a call so we can justify our presence in Iraq. We started the war based on a lie, and we’ll finish it based on a lie. I say this because I am currently serving with a logistics headquarters in the Anbar province, between the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. I am not fooled by the constant fabrication of “democracy” and “freedom” touted by our leadership at home and overseas.
This deception is furthered by our armed forces’ belief that we can just enter ancient Mesopotamia and tell the locals about the benefits of a legislative assembly. While our European ancestors were hanging from trees, these ancient people were writing algebra and solving quadratic equations. ...
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Capt. Jeff Pirozzi
Camp Taqaddum, Iraq
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It must take a lot of guts to both serve in Iraq and also speak out as Capt. Pirozzi has. I hope he comes home, safe and sound, very soon. We'll need him to speak out here, too.
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