The best way to support the troops in Iraq is to set a date for bringing them home. The Republican war propaganda machine has done a tremendously effective job of inculcating the belief that we must support the troops in their war-making efforts. The only way we can justly support the troops is to repatriate them. There would simply be no war if our troops were not participating in this unjust and (internationally perceived as) illegal war.

Our troops are in Iraq because George W. Bush lied to the American people; even a recent Pentagon report admitted there was no credible information to justify this war. Our troops are in Iraq because Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe lacked the courage to stand up to the war propaganda machine.

Collins should be voted out of office next year. She has caved in for this war at every opportunity. And, alas, our soldiers are there because most of the readers of this newspaper – as most U.S. citizens – believed the propaganda and were swept up in the war fever.

At this point, the U.S. needs to withdraw its troops and apologize to the Iraqi people – 650,000 have been murdered because of Bush’s lies. Never under Saddam Hussein were the Iraqis so slaughtered.

Emperor Bush has no clothes. We have to start admitting it, and stand up to be counted as free citizens.

Denis Ledoux, Lisbon Falls

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