Letter to the N. San Diego Co. Times: None of Bush's relatives are dying i

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None of Bush's relatives are dying in Iraq

Gen. Peter Pace is wrong ("General says parents should let their sons and daughters join the military," June 30). Parents should tell their children they don't have to die for the rich, oil, global, greedy men who want to control the world. Our sons and daughters are just as important to us as the Bush kids are to them, and we don't see any of President Bush's relatives in military uniforms.

The war in Iraq was never to defend this country. It was to have our military keep Iraq busy so the oil companies could build a pipeline across Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.

Americans have been dying for big-oil interests and President Bush's kids haven't even broken a fingernail. Personally I like the "Hell No, I Won't Go" attitude.

Americans learned from Vietnam; we have not forgotten our dead. A draft will never work because there is no respect for a bad military that will not protect its own U.S. borders and a bad president who calls those who try "vigilantes."

PATRICIA J. WALKER
Fallbrook

From http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/13/opinion/letters/7_12_0517_42_50.txt

[Sparkman]

1. If politician' KIN tote rifles in hostile country,THEN worry, and enlist !

[ovidsen]

2. This is a classic.

Or maybe a classic in the making. I wager more Muricans are feeling like this every day.

[Contrary1]

3. Further down on the same linked page:

:applause:

Who owns Iraq's oil?

The wheels are coming off the cart of Bush's illegal war. More and more people are skeptical of current claims in light of past lies. The warmongers are now busy fixing the facts around the policy of attacking Iran.

People don't believe the absurd stories about the U.S. military spreading freedom, or stopping terrorism. On the contrary, it's hard to believe that the current policy isn't meant to create more terrorism.

Lying beneath the opposition to immediate exit from Iraq is a foundation of proprietary interest. Some Americans feel that the world's resources belong to them. What would your reaction be if a country like Iraq refused to sell oil to the United States, or to accept payments for oil in dollars?

If you're going to support the occupation of a country and the killing of its innocent children, at least be honest about why, instead of repeating ridiculous lies about securing democracy for Iraqis. And while you're at it, maybe you can answer the question, what is our oil doing underneath Iraq?

BRAD DRE
Vista


Truth in advertising

Watching the Tour de France racers with their jerseys emblazoned with many corporate logos has given me an idea. We should require politicians to wear jerseys indicating the corporations that sponsor them.

That way, when a politico spouts off about being in favor of Mom, apple pie and the girl next door, maybe a few more voters would wake up to the fact that the elected official has actually sold out our communities, families and the quality of our lives for short-term corporate profit.

Of course, if we tried to list on one jersey every corporation to which the president has prostituted his soul, we'd quickly run out of room. So we'll limit Dick Cheney's jersey to his major sponsors: Halliburton, Bechtel and the Big Oil companies.

PHILIPPE VERMEYEN
Vista


Bush's strategy, one at a time

President Bush's strategy for defeating the insurgency seems to be predicated on the frequency of their suicide bombs.
One at a time, how long will it take? How many of our men will we lose?

THOMAS GEORGE ROYAL
Carlsbad

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4. Thank you. And this is from Bush county

I suppose in a few days there will be many letters complaining about the "left tilting" newspaper and will angrily cancel their subscriptions.