21 May 2004

Iraq or Vietnam?



This letter to the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journalsays it all:


"War like Vietnam . . .
How much more like Vietnam does this war need to get before the Bush administration realizes its mistakes? Forty-five innocent guests at a wedding reception were killed Wednesday when a U.S. helicopter attacked. Twenty-five of them were women and children. One of those children was decapitated.

In Vietnam, villages were burned and hundreds of innocent people were killed in similar incidents. Ho Chi Minh said of that war, 'If we have to fight, we shall fight. You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill one of yours, and in the end it will be you who will tire of it.' How many people need to die before President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove tire of it?


ROBIN JONES

Louisville 40207 "

We can only hope that those in charge will listen to the People...
--ryan