Letter: Support of Iraq war is mind-boggling

Monday, Oct. 9, 2006 | 7:30 a.m.

At this stage of the war in Iraq, it puzzles me the manner in which some individuals still support President Bush on one of the grossest mistakes in American history. When I read the comments from those who repeat the cliches from our administration to justify the billions of dollars our country is spending and the thousands of lives that have been lost, I wonder: Are they blind, or just ignorant?

There are segments of this war that are facts, not spin, such as: (a) there were no WMDs in Iraq after all; (b) Saddam had no connection with either al-Qaida or 9/11; and (c) occupying Iraq is motivating young Muslims, who were not even part of the equation when we attacked Iraq, to commit deadly acts of insurgency. And every time I read or hear the argument that terrorist acts have been commited against us since the 1980s, I read those words over and over, and still can't find the word "Iraq'' in the details of those horrible events.

If we were living in the 1960s, and our administration chose to attack a sovereign country without just cause, the backlash from our people would be mind-boggling.

I believe that this administration and the minority who still support it interpret this apathy as approval. This kind of thinking, as I said in the beginning, is an enigma.

Ken Anderson, Las Vegas