Ron Paul, who is the only constitutional Republican and a presidential contender, has this to say: Yes, Saddam Hussein is dead, and only Sunnis mourn. The Shiites and Kurds celebrate his death, as do the Iranians and especially bin Laden, all enemies of Saddam Hussein. We have performed a tremendous service for both bin Laden and Ahmadinejad (the president of Iran), and it will cost us plenty.

The violent reaction to our complicity in the execution of Saddam Hussein is yet to come. Three thousand American military are dead. More than 22,000 are wounded. We have spent $400 billion so far with no end in sight. It’s money borrowed from countries like China that increasingly succeed in the global economy while we drain wealth from our citizens through heavy taxation and insidious inflation. Preemptive, undeclared wars fought under false pretenses are a road to disaster. If a full declaration of war by Congress had been demanded as the Constitution requires, this war never would have been fought.

Scott Vanderlinden

Oak Harbor