Letter to the Editor

Claims of deception are misleading

To the editor:

Are we to assume that both Clintons, Kerry, Gore, Kennedy, Schumer et al. were all part of this campaign of lies, deception and distortion to get voters to endorse the Iraq war? Prior to 9-11, did they not, with all the same available intelligence, discuss the obvious facts that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, had used them and undoubtedly would use them again?

How convenient and disingenuous it is now for left-wingers to remove themselves from those prior lectures and speeches. It is juvenile to say we were not given all the information when it is a fact that the Senate Intelligence Committee is provided with available information. I suppose all the foreign intelligence services were in on the deception?

There was much talk of the imminent threat that this thug dictator posed and that we would be foolish to ignore him. Unfortunately, many left-wingers feel that we can discuss our way to peace with anyone. They refuse to acknowledge that some people are evil and do horrible things to even their own citizens.

I am happy that Saddam is behind bars and that his two sons are gone. Perhaps the thousands of personal accounts of rape, torture and murder were all deceptions of the current administration. Come on. Wouldn't it be nice to have a U.N. that actually stood up for all humanity and demanded each country's leader not to brutalize them?

STEVE SHELTON, Sikeston, Mo.