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Letter: Sense of fear replaces sense of reason

Friday, Oct. 6, 2006 | 7:42 a.m.

The Iraq war has led to the death and maiming of tens of thousands and the expenditure of billions that would have been better spent on fighting disease, famine and poverty. Now, today, there's a mounting body of evidence that shows the launching of this war was nothing but a horrible, tragic blunder.

You can expect politicians such as John Ensign, Jim Gibbons and Jon Porter to disregard this evidence and to continue their support of President Bush while avoiding discussions about the war. It's harder to explain why 40 percent of those in a recent poll still rated Bush favorably. Perhaps it was because the White House's war on terror has engulfed them with such a sense of fear that they lost their sense of reason.

Cornelius Harrington, Henderson

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