To the editor:

The United States has generously offered to guard Iraq’s oil fields with American troops and mercenaries at taxpayer expense taking a mere 70 percent of Iraq’s oil for profit to the big oil companies. If Iraq is forced into this deal, our Dear Leader, at last, can honestly claim, “Mission Accomplished.”

If oil is an addiction, the Dear Leader is the top drug dealer of all time.

Julian Taber

Coupeville