Weighing goals and results in Iraq
Reading your Aug. 11 article “Political Unrest Mounts in Iraq,” I was stunned to learn that Baghdad’s mayor was ousted at gunpoint. I will have to add my voice to Cindy Sheehan’s, who lost her son in this war.
President Bush, what exactly is the “noble” cause? It seems to me that we have replaced Saddam Hussein with a bloody, never-ending civil war in which our GIs are dying and our tax dollars are vanishing. Wasn’t this why your father rightly decided to leave a neutered Hussein in power at the end of the Gulf War?
ROBERT ANDERSON
Los Angeles
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The new Iraqi constitution will birth a true democracy only if it guarantees religious freedom and basic human rights. In 1948, the United Nations ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in which Article 18 states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
The new Iraqi constitution must guarantee religious freedom to be a true democracy.
GARY CURTIS
Granada Hills
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