Accentuate the positive in Iraq

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http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080114/OPINION02/801140315/1037/OPINION02

January 14, 2008

I find it odd and ironic that the Rutland Herald had "151,000 Died In Iraq" on their front page of its 1/1-1/08 issue,when all I have read and heard for the last month in many major TV networks,newspapers and magazines is: Iraq is finally becoming safer and less war-torn, that peace seems to be on the horizon. Is the Herald trying rekindle negativity in its readers regarding our country's purpose in Iraq and play devil's advocate?

There seems to be a light at the end of this long and ardous journey toward peace. I think it's time to focus on all the positive that is happening in Iraq and not get people so depressed with morbid data from the past, which only invokes feelings of hopelessness in its readers. It's time to put the accent on a better tomorrow for Iraq.

TOM ZARVIST

East Dorset

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1. words fail me

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2. "focus on all the positive. . ." George W. Bush is, always has been, and will be God to these types

This letter has nothing to do with Iraq, and everything to do with the blind worship of George W. Bush that exists by a quarter of this nation's population.

Sick.