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Letter: Mess in Iraq fits definition of folly

Friday, Oct. 26, 2007 | 7:28 a.m.

Bob Baker, in his Oct. 24 letter, "Bush assumes more power with war," hit the nail right on its flat head. Congress never declared war on Iraq. Iraq never declared war on America.

Our esteemed king declared that the mess he had created in Iraq was a war, by claiming it was a war on terror. Nobody's figured out how an international political movement can justifiably be declared a war against a single, innocent country. Oil politics, more likely?

If the money and effort used on this folly had been used for peaceful nuclear waste research, with more solar, geothermal and wind generation directed toward replacement of our energy sources, this country could have been foreign-oil independent by now.

Ask any of the current or returning Iraq war vets if they noticed any weapons of mass destruction while they were over there and they might be inclined to quote the words of the cartoonist Walt Kelly, through his character Pogo, " We have met the enemy and he is us."

Frank Porter, Las Vegas

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