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Updated May 3rd, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Rise in Terrorism Casualties

Given the daily death toll in Iraq — of both American soldiers and innocent Iraqis — it was no surprise to see the L.A. Times headline: “U.S. sees rise in terrorism casualties.”

Bush’s predetermined, illinformed, morally indefensible decision to invade Iraq after Sept. 11, despite the lack of any connection between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks, has clearly made the U.S. and the rest of the world neither safer nor more secure. In fact, it has created more U.S. enemies around the world and an ever-increasing death toll from terrorist attacks, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What is especially distressing is that there has been an 80% rise in the deaths of children by terrorists. Does the fact that terrorists have not successfully attacked on U.S. soil since Sept. 11 somehow make Americans feel better about the carnage the Iraq war has brought about in the rest of the world? Are the deaths of 20,000 innocent people in 2006 acceptable to us because they were not Americans killed on U.S. soil? I hope not.

Mary Freeman
La Cañada Flintridge