LTTE

[flamin lib]

Published again in the Ft Worth Startelegram: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/local2/16615478.htm
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Last weekend, tens of thousands of citizens gathered in Washington and across the nation to protest the war in Iraq. It brought memories of another time and another war.

I was in Washington in the early 1970s for the May Day and Vietnam Moratorium protests. If you were there, you might have seen me. I was wearing green and carrying an M-16 rifle with bayonet fixed.

That war ended 10 years after Defense Secretary Robert McNamara came to the conclusion that it was unwinnable -- more than 58,000 Americans dead, hundreds of thousands physically or mentally damaged and 3 million Vietnamese killed for a war that everyone knew was unwinnable.

Almost everyone knows that the Iraq war can't be won militarily, yet President Bush is sending 21,500 more troops into its maw. At the current casualty rate, that's a 21-month supply.

How many more to satisfy an ego and attempt to salvage a lost legacy?

Axxxx Sxxxxxx, Arlington

[flamin lib]

1. The LTTE says "tens of thousands" but I know what 500,000

looks like and from the pictures and videos I've seen it looks a lot like that.