Iraq war is tearing this country apart

Don Ellis, Henderson

Thursday, July 24, 2008 | 2:01 a.m.

What does winning in Iraq mean?

I don’t know, but I do know the war is dividing people in America. It appears the civil war in Iraq may be in a temporary holding pattern, but the constant rhetoric and arguing on news channels and in letters to newspapers are driving our great nation’s people to hate one another.

We are now in a civil verbal strife rivaling that which preceded our own Civil War. Every day CNN, MSNBC and Fox have hard-liners from each political party deliver their rhetoric and try to outyell one another and see whether they can silence the opponent. This is sheer stupidity. They should use political statements to unite the country, not divide it.

How can we say we are winning in Iraq if we are spending billions to maintain this war and the cost of our everyday necessities is pushing many Americans into poverty?

We haven’t found Osama bin Laden, but he has found us. Yes, we may have quelled some of the strife in Iraq, but bin Laden is laughing because he knows he has helped create our nation’s recession by infiltrating Iraq after our stupid invasion.

His killers have moved back to their safe havens, but he will patiently wait to make his next move. Let us hope he doesn’t muster a quarter-million killers and come at our overextended troops.