Everyday, I become more and more amazed at the anti-war letters that appear in the opinion section of the Daily. It is completely amazing how anyone at this point could oppose the war in Iraq.

I still have yet to read a single valid excuse as to why the war is wrong. One of the main ideas that seems to be presented is that we are not liberating Iraq. How? Right now, Iraq is a dictatorship.

We are working to make it a democracy once the war is over. So are you saying that democracies give their people less liberties and rights than a dictatorship? Last time I checked, America was a pretty damn good democracy, and gives me as many rights as I could ask for.

Or what about the argument that the war is destroying the American dream? I don’t see you protesters in Iraq actually fighting the war, so what is different about your lives now compared to a month ago?

In addition, to say that this war is a crime against the people of Iraq is completely ridiculous. Maybe you missed the point that Saddam Hussein killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. We also found pictures and documents of this happening. Or maybe you missed the point that everywhere we go, Iraqi citizens run out of their homes to greet us. Or what about the Iraqi citizens who tore down the statue of Saddam? I’m sure they weren’t doing it just for kicks.

But maybe you are right. Maybe Saddam never killed any civilians and we didn’t find that evidence. Maybe all the Iraqis didn’t run out of their houses, we just doctored the videotape. And maybe the Iraqis didn’t tear down the statue of Saddam Hussein; they mistook it for a statue of George Bush.

Personally, I don’t think so.

Erik Johnson

Sophomore

Construction Engineering