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Letter: We can’t invade every country that poses threat

Friday, Sept. 13, 2002 | 4:56 a.m.

No country has ever developed either nuclear weapons or inter-continental ballistic missiles without a lot of testing, and Iraq could not test without our knowledge. Iraq has no air force, and our Air Force will not allow them to fly anything over two-thirds of their own country.

We have nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the means to deliver them anywhere in the world. Why should we sacrifice hundreds or maybe thousands of our young men and women in an invasion when we have the power to level Baghdad and kill half of the people in Iraq in one day from the air, if they threatened us?

Some politicians believe that members of our military are expendable, (70,000 killed in Korea and Vietnam). The life of every man or woman in our all-volunteer military is just as valuable as any life in the country and much more valuable than the life of any Saudi Arabian king or prince.

Pakistan, a Muslim country, has nuclear weapons and a lot of support for al-Qaida. If we start invading every country that might be a future threat to us, we might have a hard time keeping our all-volunteer military.

JIM RILEY

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