Letter: President, Review-Journal just don’t get it

Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006 | 7:28 a.m.

When is a war not a war?

Answer: When President Bush says it's not a war. Bush says we're at war in Iraq, because more than 2,500 of our troops have been killed, not to mention those maimed for life.

However, he refuses to say the Sunnis and Shiites and everybody else over there fighting are already in a civil war. Many more of them have been maimed and killed, including women and children, and they're not in uniform. What does it take for the media to call a civil war a civil war?

The only paper I see with the courage to call it like it is, is the Las Vegas Sun. I have to buy the Review-Journal just to get the Sun. I buy the R-J, throw it away and read the Sun. The R-J is only a parrot of the Bush administration, even as Bush gets caught in one lie after another.

James Witherspoon, Las Vegas

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