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Letter: Iraqis need to start helping themselves

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 | 7:33 a.m.

I have read and heard President Bush state that announcing our withdrawal from Iraq would undermine our troops and weaken our possibility of winning this war. What, are we the only ones involved? What about the millions of people who live in Iraq? Possibly it would make those in that country strengthen their own fighting power.

My own theory is that it's time to help ourselves first - as long as there's one person living on our sidewalks, and as long as there is one child starving here, as long as we don't hand out rewards as well as punishments, our American home needs help more than that on the other side of the globe. Iraq has been fighting and being dictated to for thousands of years - since when is one old dog going to change things?

Jeannie Jackson, Las Vegas

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