Jeff Duncan: “the Christian Science Monitor newspaper had a lengthy article yesterday about Iraq and the fact that we are still…”

“the Christian Science Monitor newspaper had a lengthy article yesterday about Iraq and the fact that we are still regularly bombing there. The Monitor reported: ``The air mission has been expensive. It costs about $2 billion a year and occupies about 20,000 soldiers, 200 aircraft, and 25 ships.'' The Monitor also said the U.S. air war ``has not loosened Saddam's grip on power and is being questioned by U.S. lawmakers.'' About 1 year ago, the Associated Press ran a lengthy story describing our continued bombing of Iraq as a ``forgotten war'' because most Americans did not even realize we are still bombing. They still do not. Here we are spending an average of almost $6 million a day regularly bombing Iraq, and most Americans do not even realize this one-sided ``war'' is even still going on. What a waste. What are we accomplishing? Probably just the opposite from what we should be trying to do. Probably the only thing our bombing has accomplished is to keep Saddam Hussein in power by making the U.S. so unpopular in Iraq. These people were our allies in the 1980s. They could be our friends once again if we would stop bombing them. Iraq is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. unless we continue to bomb them for so long and so much that they are forced to send terrorists in here in acts of desperation.”