Re: Irma Schneider’s July 12 letter, “Let’s be reasonable, folks�:
It seems Schneider is using some sort of "new math" to justify the deaths of 2,500 troops in Iraq or, as she writes, 833 per year — and how the deaths somehow compare to the 40,000 people killed in auto accidents here in the United States yearly.
What about 20,000 troops who have come home crippled or disfigured? And what about the full third of all the solders who have come home from Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome? They and their loved ones will have to try to cope with that for the rest of their lives.
To compare auto accidents to the horrors of this heinous war is ludicrous.
President Bush took us to war because of Sept. 11, but the facts tell us that all but one of those Sept. 11 terrorists were Saudis and were financed by Saudis with zero Iraqi connection. So whom do we invade? Iraq. Using the Bush logic, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt should have sent troops to attack Canada.
— John L. Thawley, Santa Paula
Exactly John!
How one can rationalize the deaths of 2500 soldiers and servicemen demonstrates the shallowness and the sort of mental gymnastics that war supporters are forced to employ to prop up an immoral and unjustified war.
A disgraceful comparison indeed.