Editor,
If the student walkouts across the U.S. on Thursday to protest the proxy wars across the Middle East are anything like the student walkouts four years ago, the silent majority of overachieving college students will be cowering in their classrooms as the rest face off with militarized riot police.
Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry says the intelligence trail on Osama bin Laden has gone cold. If bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans, where is the justice? If Bush is responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans, where is justice for that?
The Pentagon's inspector general released a report criticizing the Pentagon for manipulating intelligence about Iraq's operational links to al-Qaida. The Office of Special Plans was responsible for the bogus intelligence about yellowcake from Niger, aluminum tubes, mobile biological labs and Mohammed Atta's presence in Prague, Czech
Republic.
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell in Iraq has released a PowerPoint presentation alleging that Iran is providing terrorists in Iraq with explosively formed penetrators. Photographs of these deadly weapons show not Farsi but English markings. Iran uses the Hijri calendar, so the year written on the weapon should read 1385, but it does not.
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Besides, we'd be hypocritical to criticize Iran - aren't smart bombs deadly, too? Isn't depleted uranium deadly? Doesn't the U.S. provide weapons to Israel?
We are often told that U.S. troops are defending our freedoms in Iraq, but all they are defending is a puppet government. They are in the middle of a civil war. I would support the troops if they supported the American people and helped defend the U.S. Constitution from an inept, bankrupt, tyrannical
government.
Americans like to blame Bush, Cheney, Democrats, Republicans, leftists, neoconservatives and the corporate media for losing the war in Iraq. But Americans have no one to blame but themselves. Cowardly Americans in 2007 are no different from cowardly Germans in the 1930s who appeased fascism.
Brian Fejer
UNM alumnus
