I am incensed at the Bush administration’s impending decision to send additional troops and money into the failing fiasco in Iraq. I am more incensed that our Congress cannot get a handle on the machine that is so out of control. I am most incensed, however, that I, and hundreds of thousands like me – advocates, writers of letters, taxpayers, and most importantly, voters – seem, on the face of it, not to count.

This cannot possibly continue. Our country is bleeding to death financially, as well as physically.

We must stop this thinking that a bigger stick is the better way; stop pretending that fighting ideology is the same as fighting an individual, and can be determined without dialogue. Stop the fiasco in Iraq and bring our troops home.

Kathleen Richardson, Paris