Letter: Bush certainly isn’t right about Iraq war

Thursday, May 3, 2007 | 7:22 a.m.

Regarding Bill Caldwell's April 28 letter, "War being made into a political platform":

I think most people by now have concluded that Osama bin Laden started the war on terror and President Bush started the war on Iraq.

I can understand Mr. Caldwell's frustration with the way the Iraq war is going. But I can't understand how this frustration translates into the awful attack Mr. Caldwell has made on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Sen. Reid was not the one who got us in to either war but only someone who is now trying to get America back on a reasonable, lawful and humane course oriented toward the defeat of terrorism.

Wasn't the defeat of terrorism the president's stated goal right after 9/11? When he ordered the attack on Iraq and pulled all of the Special Forces out of Afghanistan to help look for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he gave bin Laden and terrorism a new lease on life and an opportunity to do more damage to the world.

If we should be embarrassed for anyone it should be for those in Nevada and in other states who voted for Bush and have been so terribly let down by him and not about Reid's attempt to fix things.

Charles R. Parrish, Las Vegas