Letters: Aug. 4, 2003

Peace Is Hell

"Young soldiers will continue to die in Iraq until the U.S. realizes it hasn't cornered the market on pride and love of country." BILL STRUBBE Oakland, Calif.

Your report "Life Under Fire," about the troops in Iraq, bore sad testimony to the failed postwar campaign [IRAQ: BATTLING THE CHAOS, July 14]. While Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spars with journalists over the precise meaning of guerrilla war, Americans are suffering casualties on a daily basis, and their attempts to help the Iraqi people rebuild a country sputter and stall in the face of a security nightmare. No one in...

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