23
Apr
2008
No matter how rigorously rational the reasons, how artfully articulated the arguments, how many millions of taxbucks the governcrats will burn through to build the Great Speed Bump of Mexico, it will never produce the results its cheerleaders insist on pretending it will.
As
we reach the fifth anniversary of the U.S. military invasion of Iraq,
we mourn the deaths of 4,000 of our brave military and the loss of
tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Iraqi citizens. For those of
us who agree with the prevailing opinion of independent military and
foreign-policy experts that the war should not have happened, cannot
be won, and is in fact making us less secure around the world, the
continuation of the war is both heartbreaking and inexplicable.
The
reason for Peter Pitts' overheated rhetoric in a recent River
Cities' Reader guest
commentary ("We're Taking Your Medicine, Literally," Issue 674,
March 5-11, 2008) would have been a lot clearer if he had disclosed
his multiple entanglements with the brand-name pharmaceutical
industry.
