Letter: Where is this so-called progress in Iraq?

Monday, Dec. 12, 2005 | 8:56 a.m.

Were it not so serious, it would be laughable that President Bush says he is making significant progress in Iraq. On March 19, 2003, Bush set out to bomb the Iraqis into the Stone Age.

Now he is spending our tax dollars reconstructing his destruction in Iraq. Pardon my humor, but that is a sick joke. Bush is spending billions building new schools for the Iraqi kids while many of our schools in the inner-city ghettos are in shambles and a national disgrace.

In "Shock and Awe," 138 GIs were killed, but when Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" on May 1, 2003, the insurgents had other ideas. Since that date, 2,100 more GIs have been slaughtered in Bush's "significant progress." All of this carnage based upon non-existent WMDs, non-existent nuclear threat, and a non-existent connection to 9/11.

A great man (some say saint) by the name of Thomas Aquinas eloquently stated (paraphrased): The truth is absolute, there is no such thing as half-truths, no such things as gray areas, or misleading statements. If it is not true, it is false. If it is false, then it is a lie.

Let us not forget that on his administration's lies, Bush made America an aggressor nation for the very first time in our 227-year history on March 1, 2003.

James J. Poupard

Henderson