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In response to the previous letter entitled "Missing the Point":
You forget that we were attacked on our own soil by Osama Bin Ladin, not Saddam Hussein. You forget that Osama Bin Ladin is still at large. You forget that nobody sympathizes with the insurgents, and that we are the ones who want to save our troops from continuing to die at their hands. You forget that there were no insurgents in Iraq until we pushed our way in, and in the process created a safe breeding ground for them. You forget that Dick Cheney & Company set up their own intelligence shop because they didn't like the intelligence that they were getting from the CIA. You forget that the anti-war movement was large and thriving for a year prior to the invasion, and that support for the war, even at its peak, has never been much above 50 percent. You forget that Cindy Sheehan, the greiving mother who just wants her son back, is the new face of the anti war movement, and it is you, the people who spit on her and besmirch her name, who most Americans are sickened by.
Take a look in the mirror, sir. It is you who is missing the point.
