War, a primitive solution

THE EDITOR: I would like to refer to a letter to the Editor written by one Mr Joseph P Dulal which appeared in the Thursday April 3 publication of your newspaper.

I fully agree that Saddam Hussein is a “monster who has wiped out many families in Iraq to keep himself in power and only cares about himself and his stooges”. However, this is the only valid and correct point that you have made. Do you really think that war is the correct answer? The best answer? The Christian answer? Time and time again I have seen dead bodies, children and their parents in pain, soldiers pointing guns in the Iraqis’ faces. I have seen a man who has had his arm blown off, trying to comfort his child. Do you have children, Mr Dulal? Do you know what it is to have to comfort them while the father himself is going through the trauma of losing his own arm?

There are Iraqis who are trying to fight the coalition forces, but there are also innocent people who are dying because of this. Are these the “merits” that you have written about? How many times have you gone to sleep at night and prayed that a bomb wouldn’t blow up your house and your family? Can you imagine getting up and having a gun in your face the first thing in the morning? As for Mr George Bush, why did he proceed with the attack on Iraq even though he didn’t have the support of the United Nations? Is this some personal vendetta he has against Saddam because assassination attempts were made on his (Bush’s) father? Is this something that America has or wants to do?

People say that Bush just wants Iraqi oil. I’m not sure what he wants. However, what I do know is that this war is wrong, unnecessary and unjustified. We all would have thought by now that after the horrific events of September 11, 2001, that Bush and the American people would have a better understanding than anyone else how wrong all this is. Yet, Mr Dulal, you have the nerve to end your letter with “... and let peace prevail”. When the exact opposite is going on right now. The only question on my mind now is, if Bill Clinton or anyone else for that matter were President, would any of this have happened?

D BALTHAZAR
Princes Town