Iraq--a Familiar Conundrum

Now we learn that we buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive during the war (front page, Sept. 12). Is this something about which we can be proud? Or should we in the home of the brave feel something more akin to shame?

The American people gained nothing from this terrible war. The Kuwaiti people, while liberated from Iraq, are not liberated from their own ruling family. The Iraqi people who survived now live in the most miserable of conditions.

So who won? Certainly not those who were buried alive. In retrospect, it seems like the only winners are the American generals reaping big bucks from book advances and on the lecture circuit, the Kuwaiti rulers who have their governmental power and palaces back, Saddam (the Survivor) Hussein and George Bush, riding high in the polls.

MICHAEL BUSH

Garden Grove