Hussein’s Hold on Iraq

Arquilla can very easily come to his conclusions regarding the regime of Saddam Hussein and the Bush Administration because obviously he is living free, safe, and secure here in the United States. His family, especially children and the elderly, are not slowly dying from the effects of malnutrition. They were not subjected to the most massive bombing raids in all of history and they are not forced to live under the effects of an embargo; an embargo by the way which is not causing Saddam or his cronies any hardship.

Why are we in the West not willing to give the Iraqi people the same choice of deciding their own fate as we enjoy? Could it be the fact that we are afraid we will have to admit that maybe our government will have to publicly admit it just might have backed the wrong regime, and that we were willing to sacrifice innocent lives for oil?

JUNE E. HAUSMAN, Cerritos