RE: Robert Green's letter

Mr. Robert F. Green’s commentary in the opinion section of the January 12, 2006, issue deserves a response.

Mr. Green, we have been hearing these types of statements from the time the first American soldier set foot on Iraq’s sand. Even before anyone had a chance to find anything the Left began to trumpet their pre-scripted accusations and it has been their mantra ever since.

I wonder where Robert F. Green was about 14 years ago, when the first UN inspectors left Iraq with a frighteningly long list of WMDs they found there. Also, I would like to remind Mr. Green that when presented with the list the UN demanded from Iraq’s DICTATOR (who made it a daily habit of torturing and killing his own countrymen) to immediately surrender ALL the WMDs he possessed at that time. None of what the first set of inspectors found was ever turned over to the UN, in fact, during the following ten years the UN sent in inspectors three or four more times and each time the list got shorter and shorter until the last set of inspectors could not find anything. Does any of this jar Mr. Green’s memory? Shouldn’t we wonder what happened to ALL those WMDs that the first set of inspectors found and listed (that list still exists in the archives of the UN), or should we just conveniently forget about the truth, like Mr. Green has, because it doesn’t fit in with his peculiar sense of morality? Would it be logical for us to guess that perhaps those disappearing WMDs might have found their way to Iran, Jordan, Syria, even Saudi Arabia, and are now trickling back into Iraq by way of the insurgents?

Mr. Green, you think we won in Vietnam? You need to re-acquaint yourself with the meaning of “victory” and with the history of our country. The United States of America has never attacked any peoples without the justifiable reason of having to defend itself from further aggression.