Letter: President isn’t going to ignore threats

Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006 | 7:15 a.m.

So letter writer Joyce Segal ("U.S. went to war for all the wrong reasons," Sept. 10) is an expert in international affairs.

How does she come by all of the select knowledge she claims to have? Was she in on the government's meetings?

Did Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, decide to go into Iraq? Yes.

Did the government have information that Saddam Hussein, who was brutalizing and murdering people (more than 300,000 deaths according to the figures), was using his oil profits (kept from his people and used to build his many palaces) to begin re-establishment of a military capability? They say it is so.

Obviously President Bush could not follow all of the advice he was given and could only deal with the facts that he and his Cabinet know about ... not that Ms. Segal imagines.

The president indeed could have made errors. Who would not? But he, like many of us, would prefer to make errors on the side of caution rather than to ignore the threat and then have many more people pay a horrible price.

Ms. Segal totally ignores the current leadership of Iraq, Sunni and Shiites alike, their president and vice president, who wish to have a country to call their own and not be the property of the likes of Saddam Hussein and his sons.

Eileen Schenck, Las Vegas