Letter: Tired of waiting for Iraq to stand up

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006 | 9:17 a.m.

Our problem in Iraq is the lack of participation by the Iraqi people in developing their country. We should demand they govern and take control of their country now or leave them to the next dictator, or the Taliban, or al-Qaida. I don't want any more of our young men to die for these indifferent people. Any strongman can come in as Hussein did and take over the country because the Iraqis are either too busy grubbing for a living or they want someone to run the country and let them alone.

Whatever the Bush administration wants to do in Iraq will never happen because the Iraqi people are indifferent to politics unless a religious leader tells them what is right for them. It is my belief that our president wants to go down in history as the man who brought democracy to the Middle East.

They don't want democracy or communism or socialism or a monarchy or any kind of political government except what their clerics tell them they should have. It is their religion alone that satisfies them as far as politics is concerned.

James Altemara, Las Vegas

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