Letter: Why we need to do whatever it takes

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007 | 7:27 a.m.

The political maneuvering in Washington over Iraq is beyond the dirty depths of a rancid sewer.

Not to belittle any of the victims of 9/11, but here we have more victims. Are we, as a conscientious society, to walk away and say that the dead and wounded, who far outnumber those from the World Trade Center, have wasted their efforts and that their lives have no meaning?

History will show that we have never been involved in a war when every battle was victorious for us. Should the Minutemen not have persevered, would we still be an English colony? Should we have walked home when the Civil War battles were not always positive for us? We would all be Rebs.

World War II is a prime example of our fighting for what was right and the willingness to do whatever it took, lest we be flying a foreign flag today.

Have we become so soft and weak that we are allowing our very lives to be dictated by sound bites put out by political groups that are pandering in the sewers to get votes at the sacrifice of our rights and the spinal fluid that runs in the backbone of every American?

I never thought the day would come when our representatives would be consumed by their own goals and lose sight of those they represent and ignore that they were sent to Washington to serve us and not themselves.

Joan Beddoe, Las Vegas