THE EDITOR, Sir:
SO, SADDAM Hussein has been caught. It is very easy to express joy that someone who caused so much pain and loss in the lives of so many people will now pay the price for his ill doings. People have suffered at his hands and he has a huge price to pay.
However, happy as I am that he no longer has the power to bring harm to the people of Iraq or its neighbouring territories, I am still waiting for evidence to justify President Bush's desire to go into Iraq and get rid of Saddam Hussein. The President indicated that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction and up until this minute, those weapons are still not found. So many troops have perished and so much physical and emotional damage has been done to the country in the name of looking for weapons of mass destruction.
Forces were more bent on finding Saddam and the other members that make up the deck of cards that I believe no one remembered the weapons of mass destruction. In fact, until those weapons show up, I will continue to believe that President Bush had absolutely no right to declare war on Iraq and put so many lives at risk.
To make things even worse, while listening to one report pertaining to Saddam's capture, I was flabbergasted to find out that special troops who were de-ployed to Afghanistan to fight the war on terror and capture the man alledgedly responsible for 9/11, Osama bin Laden, were taken out and sent to Iraq to hunt down Saddam Hussein!
I am happy that the Iraqi people feel a sense of relief that the dictator is no longer in power but Bush and Tony Blair need to re-word their justification for the war. Maybe they would have gotten more support from other powers in the world had they said they wanted to liberate the Iraqi people from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Maybe that would have put more people on their side and more confidence in President Bush's foreign policy.
I am, etc.,
ANYA
ELLIOTT-ROCHESTER
aaelliottrochest@ccsu.edu
Connecticut, USA
Via Go-Jamaica
