I am writing in response to your editorial in Wednesday’s Daily about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge bill. After reading the first sentence of the second paragraph, I stopped reading. The first paragraph describes “hundreds of thousands” dying, a “beautiful land” lying in “ruins,” and having it all be “for the sake of oil.” Then, the next sentence compares the situation to that of Iraq.

It’s a shame that you needed to turn an editorial about ANWR into yet another anti-war advertisement. If you want to criticize the war, write an opinion about that. However, to do so with a few sentences in a piece about a wildlife refuge does nothing more than insult the intelligence of the student community.

Finally, the images of a group of Iraqi people cheering as a statue of Saddam was torn down Wednesday was proof enough that there is more to this war than oil. “Iraqi Freedom” isn’t just a name; it is the aim of the mission.

Jared Foster

Sophomore

Pre-Journalism and Mass Communication Political Science