George W. is covering up the fact of Saddam's death

George W. is covering upthe fact of Saddam's death
EDITOR:
The master of deception, George W. Bush would like you to believe that the United States is still earnestly searching for Saddam. Where, oh, where can he be?
Let me be the first to tell you: He's dead. That's right, dead. But what about those videotapes that showed up at Al-Jazeera, you may ask. The CIA positively identified his voice. Apparently you can believe the CIA. They wouldn't lie to you. They want you to believe that Saddam Hussein escaped all by himself, when everyone who was in any way close to him has already been captured or killed. Not only that, he's making movies, too.
Now the claim he's changing hideouts every four hours. Good going, Saddam. Quite a marathon you're running, or should we call you SuperSaddam?
If they really believed that he was alive, do you think for one minute they would have wiped out the two most likely witnesses, his sons, in that slaughterhouse killing they called a firefight? I don't think so. Someone would have lost his job fast if that was the case.
So why would the USA/CIA/Mossad be faking Saddam and rallying people to resist the occupation? Sounds strange, doesn't it? But think about it. Would there be more or fewer people who oppose the United States occupation if they knew for sure that Saddam was dead? They needed Saddam as an excuse for their invasion. Now they need him as an excuse for the occupation. And it scares the American people, too, at the same time. Scared people are more patriotic, or let us be honest, compliant.
W. spent his entire life deceiving and swindling people. That is how he "won" the presidency. He learned from his dad who ran the CIA. War today is deception. So are democratic elections, it seems. The truth is that the U.S. intelligence found out a couple of years before all this that Saddam was very sick and that he may not live more than a year or two. That was the main reason for the invasion at this point. They feared the succession and the uncertainty it would bring, not Saddam's rule. They don't dislike dictators and they certainly don't mind torture. Nobody here knows what is going on in Guantanamo. Good. You don't want to know. It would disturb you. They claim Saddam is dead. Well they also claim that Sharon is a peacemaker. Some people will object and say that the U.S. victory would be considered incomplete without confirming Saddam's death. I don't know. There were rumors about Hitler having escaped and living in South America for decades after World War II. It didn't alter the impression of victory in that conflict.
The United States is using Saddam in death in the same way that they used him in life, as an instrument of deception and oppression. Saddam was the glove, and America was the hand that wore it.
ROGER LAFONTAINE
Youngstown
Some homosexuals chooseto live chaste lifestyles
EDITOR:
The Aug. 8 story, "War against morality rages in most unlikely place," raises a question in my mind concerning the appointment of the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopalian body of bishops. What are the bishops going to say to the "homosexual" men and women whose love for God has given them the courage to live "chaste" lifestyles? Have the witness of these Christian homosexual men and women been in vain.
The Episcopalian bishops should have centered their discussion around the question of whether or not God instituted marriage for the procreation of children. The contraception mentality of the world has entered into family life. It's opened up Pandora's box and a whole host of moral debates and questions that otherwise wouldn't have been begun.
SYLVIA KOZWARA
Boardman