Letter to the editor

After seeing tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens draped in Iraqi flags marching in the streets of baghad on the anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, screaming for American troops to leave, I am totally confused as to why we insist on staying there. They don't like us, they don't want us there and we continue to swallow the line trhat we're on some kind of holy mission of salvation. We are not considered as liberators, we are considered to be occupiers and therefore enemies. The overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people appear to be loyal followers of the Shiite militant, Mugtada al-Sadr, who hates our guts and wants us gone. It's an outrage for our young soldiers and marines to be stuck in the middle of such a cesspool of hatred. Let them burn somebody elses flag and leave them dancing in the streets shouting for the coming of another Saddam Hussein. They already seem to have one waiting in the wings.
George Morin
Auburn, Ga.