About a year ago you printed a letter I wrote defending my goverment's decision to invade Iraq. I based my opinion on my belief that what I was told about WMDs held by Iraq being an imminent threat was true. Since the invasion, and subsequent inability of coalition forces to find ANY WMD's in Iraq I have come to the realization that, to use an American colloquialism, I was suckered.
The most disheartening thing of all is that since this debacle commenced, rather than find the parties responsible for this appalling failure of correct intelligence and fire their sorry asses, my government has told more stories than Walt Disney studios. It would seem in the current administration the buck stops nowhere.
Without accountability, there is chaos. I have come to the conclusion that the light at the end of the Iraq tunnel is an onrushing freight train.
John in Feelings on the eve of war:
I would like to say a couple of things to the Australian people.
First thank you for your continued friendship and support over a long, long period of time, including being able to forgive some things of which the U.S. government should rightly be ashamed of doing to a friend. My country is far from perfect.
Regarding the Iraq situation, to quote R.A. Heinlein; a brute kills for pleasure and a fool kills for hate. I truly believe my government is neither. We are taking this course of action because the consequences of not doing it will, in the long run, cost more lives in Iraq and the rest of the world than doing nothing.
There are no sure things in the world. History will judge whether this was a correct course of action or not. I am just a blue collar working stiff with a brother in the national guard, but I wanted to make my feelings known to a nation that I admire, and respect.
