Letter: We’re all anti-war, but war must go on

Friday, Oct. 14, 2005 | 7:57 a.m.

I have had a similar loss and it haunts me. However, how does Mr. Pia know that we had not been receiving threats from Iraq before, during and after 9/11?

Ahmad Chalabi, a recognized leader in Iraq, approached our government and our ultimate attacks were based on what was supposed to be and may well have been valid information: presence of weapons of mass destruction, the widespread and well-proven terrorism of their own people by Saddam Hussein and his two sons ... remember them?

Mr. Pia states this invasion was based on deliberate misrepresentation and distortions of the truth. By whom? If anyone it was Mr. Chalabi and those people who made statements to our president regarding WMD and dangers to the United States and our allies.

Most of, if not all of, the anti-war people don't want to realize that we all are anti-war. They do not wish to accept the fact that wars were fought by others to ensure their freedoms to speak, to demonstrate.

So many men and women, so many names ... heroes all ... and we don't remember most of their names. And yet they fought for Mrs. Sheehan and her son.

Hopefully Mr. Pia will realize that this is a world struggle and must be fought before this cancer spreads even further. Perhaps the president knows this ... and the Congress of the United States.

Eileen Schenck Las Vegas