Your editorial, "Turning up the heat" (Aug. 18) in order "to cool down her campaign" was interesting. Perhaps President Bush should go face to face with Cindy Sheehan a second time to assure her of his compassion for all our fallen soldiers and their families.
Meanwhile, please don't print any more Ohman cartoons depicting the Iraqi leadership as a bunch of filibusters of their new government and constitutional freedoms.
In due time, the American framers got our Constitution right. Let's not tear Iraq's down before they get started.
Surely, you have heard of Job, the Iraqi, way back in the beginning of time "when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7 and James 5:11).
Thanks for the News & Record and for our good delivery service here at Stoney Creek.
Jim Ellis
Stoney Creek
Comments (10)
The only comment that I'll make is like Job the Iraqi people sure have been suffering for a long time and it looks like they've got a long way to go before life gets good. The rally of thousands of Iraqis yesterday was pitiful in its own way. To think that we could have removed a monster like Saddam yet in the eyes of a lot of Iraqis we made life worse, speaks volumes to the moral debt that we have incurred.
Posted by Marshall | August 27, 2005 4:51 AM
BTW the rally of thousands of Iraqis was to support the return of Saddam to power. Obviously I need my coffee.
Posted by Marshall | August 27, 2005 6:01 AM
Seems to me America took like 11 years to draft a constitution - and then it started going astray shortly thereafter.
I guess we'll be in Iraq for quite a while ... oh well, that'll give us an excuse for maintaining forces in a volotile oil-rich middle east. Maye there is a hidden plan in Bush's lack-of-a plan ??
Posted by James D. Rockefeller | August 27, 2005 6:06 AM
Jim, when the Iraqi's are successful in setting up their own government and eventually restore peace to their country it will be because American soldiers gave their lives for the causes of liberty and freedom a people who were repressed.
That isn't acceptable to the peaceniks who cannot accept the expenditure of life for any cause, no matter how noble or just and it will make the cries of "blood for oil" and "Haliburton" appear even more irrelevant.
Posted by hugh | August 27, 2005 9:15 AM
All the anti-war numbnuts out there seem to think a new constitution and government can be designed in an hour, including commercial breaks.
Welcome to the real world; things take time, important things take a long time.
Give them time, they're moving ahead at remarkable speed right now, given the 30-odd years they had of Saddam's oppression.
Posted by Larry Porter | August 27, 2005 10:18 AM
The big difference between the US and Iraq is that we won our own freedom. Since when is it our mission to spend our lives for other peoples who didn't ask for our help and maybe don't want the system we're trying to impose upon them.
Will all of you war-mongers (oh, that's right, you're peace lovers, snicker, snicker) feel it was all worth it if a democratic Iraq elects a muslim gov't?
Posted by Sally | August 27, 2005 11:03 AM
Excellent question Sally!
Shalom
Posted by Darryl | August 27, 2005 11:22 AM
Sally, you've got to admit that:
"Islamic theocracy is on the March" doesn't have the same ring as "Freedom is on the March".
It does however have the ring of truth.
Posted by Marshall | August 27, 2005 11:59 AM
" .. when the Iraqi's are successful in setting up their own government and eventually restore peace to their country it will be because American soldiers gave their lives for the causes of liberty and freedom a people who were repressed."
SO THAT IS OUR PURPOSE? Jeeze - we'd better get busy 'cause there are about 100 other countries in the same pickle as Iraq was ...
Posted by James D. Rockefeller | August 27, 2005 5:02 PM
... I'm sorry that "argument" really pisses me off.
Posted by James D. Rockefeller | August 27, 2005 5:03 PM