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Iraq has become the Looking Glass War. Looking there for torture, we see reflected ourselves and Abu Ghraib. Mass killings? We've slaughtered about 30,000 Iraqi civilians. Looking for Iraq's use of chemical weapons? We find the dead bodies of Iraqis horribly burned by our white phosphorous...

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Main Authors Hill, Jason E, Bosch, Randall, Ball, Lillian, Hayes, Michael, Burrelli, Al, Gebremedhin, Loule, Quinn, Frank C, Brucia, Tom, Chimenti, Michael, Munson, Jim, Stein, Bernie
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 07.12.2005
EditionCombined editions
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Bush, George W
Clinton, Hillary
Williams, James
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Summary:Iraq has become the Looking Glass War. Looking there for torture, we see reflected ourselves and Abu Ghraib. Mass killings? We've slaughtered about 30,000 Iraqi civilians. Looking for Iraq's use of chemical weapons? We find the dead bodies of Iraqis horribly burned by our white phosphorous bombs. Looking for their corrupt system of justice? We see American illegal detentions. Want to develop a democratic free press there? We are paying Iraqi journalists to print stories that we write for them. We deplore their fanatical religious fundamentalism, but we have the very same forces. Iraq with its many deformities has become a mirror in which we are seeing ourselves. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is coming off as "[George W. Bush]-lite" on the bloody Iraq war, as "Hillary fine-tunes message on war in Iraq" [News, Dec. 1] rightly points out. I checked on her Web sites and found that she has "issues to discuss." On one list of approximately 25 issues, the war in Iraq does not appear; on another list of 16 issues, it is also inexplicably absent. Iraq is not an issue for Clinton and the American people? I support the senator on most matters, but on the paramount issue of the day, I am deeply troubled by her luke-warm opposition to the war and her restrained criticism of the Bush administration. Newsday welcomes letters of 250 words or fewer. Include name, address, day and night telephone numbers, and relevant political or other interests. Send e-mail to letters@newsday.com, fax to 631-843- 2986 or mail to Letters, Newsday, 235 Pinelawn Rd., Melville, NY 11747. Letters will be edited, become property of Newsday and may be republished in any format.