Letter: Cost of Iraq war is much too high

Monday, Feb. 28, 2005 | 9:01 a.m.

This is in reply to Ken Lucas' letter of Feb. 22, in which he expressed his opinion as to why we should still be in Iraq. The reasons as to why we are in Iraq change from day to day to day. Does this answer the question as to why people question the war we are currently engaged in fighting? The evidence for the reasons for this war has been contradicted time and time again.

When will this war be finished? President Bush keeps changing the time frame from when we will withdraw from this country. Meanwhile our friends, our sons and our daughters die for this war. They die in service to our country, but how much blood are we willing to shed for this war? How many mothers and fathers must mourn because they have lost their children?

It is sad to lose one person in this war but when the cost in lives rises higher and higher, will we still wish to stay? This war is getting bloody and ugly and will not end until we withdraw.

It is so very clear that even though the Iraqi people are grateful for their election, we should leave before the costs outweigh the benefits of all that we have done.

REBEKAH HAMBY