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Robert Traynham, communications director for Sen. Rick Santorum, referred us to the Santorum Web site to
understand the senator's position on Iraq ("About This Criticism," Jan. 28). Mr. Traynham was responding to a Jan. 24 letter from a PG reader who criticized the senator's Jan. 18 piece, "Telling the Whole Story About Iraq" (which was a response to a Jan. 16 Post-Gazette editorial, "Santorum's War"). The letter writer said the senator was being vague about the war's progress and its objectives.
I read Sen. Santorum's Jan. 18 piece and visited his Web site. I found nothing that defines the senator's position on winning the war, the terrorists' objectives or the progress
being made in Iraq. Like others who refuse to acknowledge that we were lied into this war, which had nothing to do with 9/11,
Mr. Santorum's Web site is filled with airy idealisms about taking pride in "our nation's national security objectives" and
ensuring that the troops "are well-equipped and return safely." It sounds patriotic, but not substantive.
The senator will never admit the enormous costly mistake of invading Iraq. Because to do so, he'd probably
rationalize, undermines our chances of winning. But what are we winning? For that matter, who is the enemy? The senator would
answer, as would any Bush administration loyalist, "the terrorists." Had our armed forces not been replanted in Iraq to search
for the ever-elusive "weapons of mass destruction," perhaps we could have brought 9/11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden, to justice.
How many people remember him? What about al-Qaida?
Amazing what a catastrophic quagmire like the Iraq mess will do to a national consciousness.
Matt Barry, Munhall
Letter to the editor, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb 6, 2006
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