The Enterprise’s editorial “Iraq: Stay or go?” (April 12) is unbelievable.

You wrote: “The Iraqi government must decide soon if American troops are to remain.”

No. The Nov. 27, 2008, “status of forces agreement” between Iraq and the United States settled this issue. It was remarkably clear. Article 24 said, “All the United States forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than Dec. 31, 2011.”

Where is The Enterprise’s outrage at this war? Are you completely unaware of the facts? Do you not remember the lies that Bush and company told to start this war?

The Oct. 1, 2001, classified National Intelligence Estimate of the U.S. intelligence community said, “Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW against the United States, fearing that exposure of Iraqi involvement would provide Washington a stronger case for making war.

“Iraq probably would attempt clandestine attacks against the U.S. homeland if Baghdad feared (that) an attack that threatened the survival of the regime were imminent or unavoidable … ” Bush and company consistently lied, saying Iraqi weapons of mass destruction threatened the U.S.

How can there be a newspaper editorial that doesn’t address, even in one sentence, the political deception that led to this war and the real human suffering it caused?!

As long as American newspapers continue to write about war in Iraq in cutesy terms like “the always-meddling Iran” and “the Iraqi military’s shortcomings,” Americans cannot be expected to wake up. You need to speak up about obvious, massive injustice.

In this “war on terror,” America has already lost (to the government) many of the freedoms we supposedly hold precious. But we’ve lost something even more valuable than constitutional freedom. They have taken away, and we have let them take, our conscience.

Mark Graham

Davis

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