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Originally created 10/03/03

Iraqi oil falsehood perpetrated by 'Chronicle'

By Letter to the Editor

This is my comment on the Sept. 19 editorial, "Consider it a loan," about money the president plans on asking Congress for to pay for reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You write: "...it's lunacy for American taxpayers to foot the bill for bringing Iraq's infrastructure into the 20th century, let alone the 21st, while Iraqis are sitting on top of the greatest supply of oil known to mankind."
Oh, really? Surely you know that the last part of the sentence is not true! And just to be sure that the multitudes are adequately misled, the editorial concludes. "...when they are sitting on all that oil...".
Please, sir! You are allowed your opinions; you may, sometimes, ignore the truth but you may not perpetrate a falsehood.
Or, were you just checking whether or not we are all asleep?
Anton Soosaipillai, Grovetown, Ga.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/10/03/let_393603.shtml