Troubled by Bush's message

PRESIDENT BUSH'S unscheduled trip to Iraq and his message to our troops reminded me eerily of one of the quotations that came out of the US experience in Vietnam.

During the Vietnam War, there was the famous phrase "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." In yesterday's front-page article, "Bush defends war in trip to Iraq," the president tells troops that "the Iraq we're standing in today is dramatically freer, dramatically safer, and dramatically better than the Iraq we found eight years ago."

I'd like to hear what the Iraqi people have to say about this notion, and whether "destroying the village" justified the results we see in Iraq today.
Dick Campbell, Weymouth