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In regards to a recent letter ("For future's sake, we cannot quit"), I was far from disappointed with the writer's grasp of reality, I was actually amazed by the fact that some people still believe, "Hey! We're winning this war!"

Did anyone see the news recently where 100 people in Baghdad died from a car bomb attack?

Using the writer's letter as a guide, how does that make things "better" in Iraq, if Iraqis are dying by the truckload every day in suicide bombings and sectarian killings?

Would she still call that "making strides" in this war--even if our own military has failed thus far to date to stop the insurgent and death squad attacks on both sides?

How can the Iraqi people be grateful for having democracy when they have an impotent government now and have absolutely no security to speak of--because we screwed up in so many ways with this botched invasion of ours?

Is this what her sons have fought (and will most likely die) for? To spin their wheels in place for 4 years and beyond, trying to halt and all out civil war?

The letter writer can blame the terrorists all she wants till the cows come home. But it won't change the reality on the ground.

Schuyler Thorpe

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