Let's say 'Enough!'

12/15/2006 12:07:00 PM
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Letter

In his essay, "Iraq: The War of the Imagination," posted by The New York Review of Books at www.nybooks.com, Mark Danner asks a fundamental question that Americans should have been asking themselves.

"If confronted with that simple question the smiling President Ahmadinejad of Iran put to Mike Wallace last August - 'I ask you, sir, what is the American Army doing inside of Iraq?' - how many Americans could offer a clear and convincing answer?"

The problem is that Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with Sept. 11, and had no "weapons of mass destruction." Those realities were known to the Bush administration, and yet were misrepresented by that administration. The entire premise for the American invasion of Iraq was fraudulent.

Former federal prosecutor, Elizabeth de la Vega, in her book United States v. George W. Bush et al, has documented in detail the crime committed by the Bush administration. "The crime," writes de la Vega, "is tricking the nation into war - in legal terms, conspiracy to defraud the United States."

"Money talks," as they say, and that is how oil and Israeli interests took control of our government. Nuclear-armed Israel can look out for itself, and we can buy oil; we don't need to steal it. Yet our supine Congress allowed oil and Israeli special interests, operating within the Bush administration, to usurp powers rightfully exercised only by Congress. Congressmen who dodged their responsibilities have given us the best Congress that money can buy.

Because the fraudulent war on Iraq has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people, the Bush administration has placed an indelible stain of shame on the history of America. How long must we allow it to continue? Is there no leader in America with guts enough to stand up, to look beyond oil and Israeli money, and to declare "enough?"

JACK DENNON
Warrenton