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Letter: Bush disgraces 9/11 with political speech

Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006 | 7:23 a.m.

We are positioned in a quagmire in Iraq.

President Bush said Monday in his nationally televised, politically motivated speech that Iraq is our key center in his declared war on terrorism.

I found it obscene that he used an American memorial day, the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, to try to spin his unpopular invasion and occupation of Iraq to somehow justify it.

The 9/11 Commission, which Bush tried to prevent from being created, determined that Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11.

How stupid does Bush, and his propaganda/political architect Karl Rove, think the American public is?

So far we have lost nearly 2,700 of our best young men and women, about 20,000 have been injured (many of them severely), and billions and billions of our taxpayer money has been spent on "his war," numbers that will all at least double if we stay "his course."

Robert Ward, Las Vegas

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