Two or more of our soldiers are getting killed every day in Iraq. They are easy targets for the snipers, and at times the soldiers have to shoot back, battling innocent people not of their will. It’s no wonder so many of our soldiers are committing suicide lately.

We no longer belong in Iraq. Let those people elect their own government and endure the consequences.

Like our state, they have good rivers and many resources. They can grow their own crops to feed themselves and have oil to sell to other countries.

We cannot afford more wars. Our finances are in a mess.

We have a large deficit in trade. Our manufacturing has gone overseas for cheap labor. Proof of that is that everything has a “Made in China” label. I suspect that their banks are making loans to ours now, so we’re mortgaging our property indirectly.

We need a very smart individual for president, not one who has an ambition to go to another planet.

Raoul Roy, Jay