Iraq war based on lies

Why Congress Should Embrace the Surge," by Owen West (Op-Ed, May 1), suggests that Congress and the American public should trust those who started and executed this war with 10 more years to "win." This misses the forest (a wrong war) for some trees (how to win).

Many Americans now see that the war in Iraq was based on lies and deceptions, misunderstanding of the task, and narrow ideologies of a few in power.

We see that it had nothing to do with terrorism, that it has destabilized the Middle East and increased the terrorist threat, ruined America's moral authority in the world, cost the world tens of thousands of lives, and that four years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the United States clearly has not had a coherent strategy to "win the peace."

We don't know the best course out of this quagmire, but we know an unnecessary disaster when we see one.

So we have asked for change. We hope that these new leaders will find a solution.

Erec Stebbins
New York, May 1, 2007

• N Y Times.......  May 2nd,2007

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