Letter to the editor

Well, Cal Thomas, who never met a war he didn't like, has done it again. This time, in his column, "they just don't understand", he says, "if protesters got their way, consequences would be deadly". What does he call the present "consequences" of rushing into a premature and unjustified invasion of a country for reasons proven to be based on false evidence? If the thousands of dead American military personnel and Iraqi civilians aren't deadly consequences, I don't know what else to call them. Thomas calls protesters hippie throw-backs of the Vietnam war and Hollywood actors who speak against the effort to make Iraq a "stable and independent nation." Iraq is so stable and independent that its leaders cannot venture into the streets beyond American security forces without being shot down or blown up. Mr. Thomas is the one who doesn't understand. He still clings to the fallacy that the Vietnam war was one we should have won at all costs when the facts are we never should have gone there in the first place. Of course Mr. Thomas never noticed, but in that crowd of protesters were the faces of mothers, fathers, spouses, and children of American soldiers and marines they will never see again, and for him to spew his venomous insults upon them is his ever-lasting shame. Cal Thomas is himself a throw-back to a time we never thought we'd see again. A time when madness ruled the roost.

George Morin
Auburn, Ga.