Letter to the editor

The question that I consider at this time to be the mother of all questions pertaining to the war in Iraq is simply this: How much of the accrued oil profits, estimated to be in the billions, that the Iraqi government has accumulated has been contributed to the war effort? Are we to believe allegations that the answer, is little or none? Are we also expected to swallow the reason given is that the Iraqi government hasn't figured a way to spend the money it has socked away in various banks? That the governing body is so riddled with corruption and ineptitude that it cannot function or be trusted to function in their own behalf? Recent revelations that millions of American dollars have mysteriously disappeared into thin air with no evidence of where and why is enough to rattle somebody's cage, but that somebody of responsibility remains, like the disappearance of the money, an enigma, another bone in the throat of credibility. All that aside, once again, the prime question that begs to be answered is, How much of all that oil revenue are the Iraqi's contributing to the war effort, THEIR war effort. I ask this in the name of all that's reasonable, rational and fair.....and for all those who have sacrificed their lives in a cause we all pray to have been worthy of the effort.

Gerge Morin
Auburn, Ga.