How many more Iraqi children must die?
Our leaders are determined to take on Saddam Hussein again. Based on “intelligence” (remember how effective that was on Sept. 11), people like Dick Cheney will go to any length to prove that Iraq presents a danger to America. Congress is demanding to be consulted, but there is no will to wage peace; a war mentality holds firm sway in America today. A war-authorizing resolution is already under way. War with Iraq “is no longer a whether; it’s when.” A reported one million Iraqi children have died in the aftermath of the Gulf War, largely from the sanctions’ resulting in malnutrition and disease. How many more Iraqi children will be sacrificed to satisfy our blood lust for the man we once counted as a valuable ally; the man who took us at our word when we effectively acquiesced in his quest to forge a logical and natural boundary for his nation; and the man who now is being demonized as Hitler reborn? How many children? Robert H. Stiver Pearl City Countries other than Iraq pose threat, t
