Letter: Bush trying to settle feud with Saddam

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002 | 8:59 a.m.

Insightful political journalists are suggesting that the entire Bush and Hussein families be provided with boxing gloves or even garden hoses so that they could "fight it out," and finally settle their personal vendetta once and for all.

This would not only avoid an unprovoked very possible nuclear World War III, save countless lives of our young military men and women, innocent civilians and their children, and save billions of dollars, but it would also promise an interesting and humorous TV show. Unfortunately, the situation this appointed administration has created is not a laughing matter.

Fifteen of the 19 mass murderers of Sept. 11 were Saudis, living and traveling freely in our country, many with expired visas and phony IDs. This was clearly a grim breach of U.S. security and should have been handled by investigations and firings of those responsible.

Instead, the un-elected President George Bush blamed one guy, Osama bin Laden, and ordered the bombing of caves in faraway Afghanistan, promising that Osama would be "smoked out" and taken "dead or alive" amidst other phrases from old cowboy movies.

Far more dangerous countries than tiny Iraq are known for certain to have nuclear weapons -- China, Pakistan, Syria, etc. But now we are being ordered to "forget Osama" and again hate Saddam, the old nemeisis of the Bush family, even though Iraq, unlike Iran and others, has never once harmed one single American.

TONY DI MAGGIO