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Thursday, August 4, 2005 2:13 PM CDT

To the Editor:

I am the proud father of two sons who are in the military. My Marine has recently returned from Iraq and my Guardsman, attached to the 134th Medical Company at Washington, is being deployed to Iraq on Aug. 6.

I have a few questions I'd like to ask your readers.

Why do we continue to support and be sucked into the lies our current administration are presenting to us? How can we continue to support an administration that:

n Secretly decided to go to war;

n Decided to deceive and mislead Congress and the American people with 0 claims about both weapons of mass destruction and ties between Saddam Hussein and 9-11;

n Secretly diverted $700 million from the war in Afghanistan and started bombing Iraq to provoke a war;

n Agreed to go to the U.N. only to "legalize" an illegal invasion - and then walked out of the U.N. when inspections worked.

Items 2 and 3 are both impeachable offenses. The Bush Administration's conspiracy to deceive Congress culminated in a fraudulent letter to Congress on March 18, 2003, claiming continued U.N. inspections would endanger the national security of the United States.

This fraud violated the federal anti-conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C.