| Send your letters to the Free Press, PMB #178, 1463 E Republican St,Seattle 98112, or WAfreepress@gmail.com. Please include your fullname and phone number for verification. Keep them short. Letters maybe edited for length, spelling and grammar. Letters do not necessarilyreflect the opinion of the Free Press. Letters which respond to FreePress articles will be given precedence. Bush Keeps Americans in DarkWhatever happened to the 9/11 investigation? Why has the Bushadministration fought off efforts to find the backers of 9/11? Whereis bin Ladin? Why have we abandoned Afghanistan instead of rebuildingit as promised after we invaded Afghanistan to capture bin Ladin? Whatchanged our relationship with Saddam Hussein, the butcher of Baghdad,yet onetime staunch U. S. anti-communist ally, so that we finally hadto invade Iraq in order to "liberate" the Iraqis? None of the above questions have been answered to date and the Bushadministration wants to keep Americans in the dark. The plan hasalways been to achieve U.S. business dominance and Iraq is simply thelatest pathetic third world country to suffer a massacre at the handsof the greatest military power in history. Remember, Bush said fromthe start that even if Saddam left Iraq, the U.S. would invade anyway. The U.S. did invade. Now the U.S. is threatening Syria and Iran withthe same fate unless they welcome U.S. business dominance. It appearsthat our young people are fighting and dying for U.S. business. Thepeace movement had it only half right. The invasion was not just aboutoil; it was about Iraq's oil, water, roads, trains, phones, ports anddrugs. The U.S. installed puppet government will dole out the contracts tocorporate insiders to sell of Iraq's assets to benefit U.S. business.Meanwhile, the Ba'athists are quietly slipping back into office. Ourthugs now. The propaganda mill rolls on.
--Howard Pellett PCC FanI have just finished reading Jan.Feb. 2003 response by Trudy Bialic toa "PCC should allow free newspapers" previous mail statement. For some reason which I find it difficult to understand you chose toheadline her response with an editorial - "we allow free papers - justnot most of them" and then at the end of her response editorializedagain saying the "free" press was not one of the "few" chosen.Excuse me, but the PCC I shop at offers The Stranger, The Weekly, TheNew Times, and more, plus has someone selling Real Change outside.I am really tired of both the Right (boycott France) and the Left (geeyou're a real business) whining.I own a small business of my own and what is wrong with a businesstrying to earn a damn living these days and pay employees. So whatthey're a co-op, they have to make money to pay the bills--this is nothippy dippy land. Get a life.Besides--you are trying to earn a living too. In fact on the front ofthe paper it implies that I have gotten just a sample copy and I cannow "subscribe" (that means send you money) because this will NOT BEDISTRIBUTED IN THE SAME PLACE NEXT TIME.So what's the FREE that gives you the right to trash a locally ownedsmall business who does this community a lot of good?
--Susan L. Zuege, PCC "co-op" member What more could anyone want besides the Stranger, the Weekly, the NewTimes, and a few other commercial papers on PCC's free racks? --ed.
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