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U.S. policy in Iraq bolsters terrorists' claims against Americans Dear Editor: How exactly will "quitting now" in Iraq "set up more 9/11 attacks" when it's been proven again and again that dictator Saddam Hussein's Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with those September 11, 2001 atrocities ("thank our troopos," March 27 Beacon letters)? It's truly infuriating how the Iraqi War's dwindling, but still very bloodthirsty merry band of cheerleaders, like letter writer Ernest Howell, endlessly continue to spew such nonsense despite all evidence to the contrary. Except for the fact that they are a lot more dangerous in their fantasizing, they've become the equivalent of flat earthers, creationists and Bigfoot believers in their fanatical, deluded wrongheadedness. If anything, the opposite is true regarding the Iraqi War. Keeping a hundred thousand or so American soldiers in Iraq is likely to eventually spur an international intifada of terrorism against the United States because the whole unprovoked, unjustifiable invasion and occupation have brought nothing but more hellish misery to the Middle East. Estimates for the numbers of Iraqis killed in this war range from the high tens of thousands to the hundreds of thousands, according to humanitarian groups like American Friends Service Committee and Doctors Without Borders who have also detailed how hundreds of thousands of other wounded in the crossfire have been left needlessly crippled, incapacitated and eventually dead because of a lack of supplies or doctors who have fled the Iraqi inferno. More than 5 million Iraqis, which is about 20 percent of Iraq's pre-war population, have been forced to flee their homes because of the almost apocalyptic chaos and violence inflicted by the war. While 2.7 million have managed to find temporary shelter of some shabby sort within Iraq itself, another two-and-a-half million have ended up as refugees in Syria, Jordan and other neighboring countries. Meanwhile, our own country America, which created this bloody catastrophe, has so far taken in only 2,000 Iraqi refugees while rather grudgingly pledging to let in 12,000 more. Yes, one can readily see how the Iraqi War has become a global cause celebre for anti- American jihadists who can now give "I told you so " diatribes about the U.S. to more moderate Muslims.
The Iraqi War is one we should never have started in the first place and should have quit five years ago in spring 2003 right after we toppled that odious ogre Saddam Hussein. After more than 4,000 U.S. solider deaths and at least half-a-trillion tax dollars expenditures, it's long, long past time to quit, declare victory and bring the troops home because Iraq and its oil belong to the Iraqis who have to decide for themselves whether they want a democracy or another dictatorship.
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