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3.2.07 @ 12:01AM

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Or is it disgust?
-- frost

Letter writer Rolland Miller sounds awfully naive for someone his age and being so "worldly." Clear thinking people know that America would have to be seriously provoked before she would ever unleash her nuclear arsenal because we certainly have a greater appreciation of the consequences. Mr. Miller's statement that: "Bush has even taken the attitude that if we think you may be dangerous, you will strike with no regard for life." [sic] is nonsense as is his claim of "millions" of deaths attributable to U.S. forces. America has painstakingly made huge investments in both the development and the deployment of more accurate weapons and tactics in order to minimize unintended casualties. We now have lawyers on the battlefield for heaven's sake. And if Mr. Miller doesn't think America practices liberty and freedom then all I can say is lay off the Kool-Aid already, we know the N.Y. Times dispenses it in great quantities, show some restraint.

September 11th 2001 convinced me that we are indeed in a war with elements that are supported in the shadows by governments who by day pretend to be our friends along with those who openly proclaim to be our enemies. Laying down and being passive would only result in the situation we see in Europe and U.K. -- radical hate speech against the state, openly issuing death threats to anyone who opposes them and a population so afraid it that it is giving ground to Islamic fascism, and their societies are becoming less westernized and more middle-eastern.

Our intentions no matter how flawed are honorable, Mr. Miller you should wake up!
-- John Nelson
Hebron, Connecticut

I thought about responding to Mr. Miller's letter, then decided not to bother.

As my grandfather used to say: "Never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll only waste your time and it annoys the pig."
-- Michael Tobias
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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