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Letter: War in Iraq is nothing like World War II

Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005 | 3:03 a.m.

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September 3-5, 2005

I am a combat veteran of World War II and I take umbrage with Bush's comparison of the war in Iraq to the war I fought in. The only similarity is that good men and women are being wounded or dying in combat.

Our entry into World War II began after the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor by Japan, a member of the tri-pac axis alliance, which included Germany and Italy.

In Bush's War the U.S. was attacked by 19 members of al-Qaida. The president went after bin Laden but never completed that mission. Bin Laden is still around, plotting more attacks. For whatever hidden agenda, George W. Bush took on Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Bush's war in Iraq has now created a whole new enemy.

RAY HARBERT

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