Letters to the Editor for Thursday, July 17, 2008

Published: July 16, 2008

‘Mein Kampf’? Oh, that was only bluster
If one ever wondered how history would have reacted had America or Great Britain taken out Hitler before Sept. 1, 1939, recent letters to the editor provide a clue. The Forum in The News & Advance would have been filled with letters declaring “Mein Kampf” was just propaganda, the Anschluss was a natural progression for Austria and, of course, Hitler was building a Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht — with the warmongers Churchill and Roosevelt in power, he had to!

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Now, I am as upset as anyone on the Left at a president who took this nation to war without congressional approval, without sanction of the United Nations and with intelligence that later proved to be false. However, Milosevic is dead, Clinton is out of office, and that all seems to be water under the bridge.

If, however, we are speaking of Iraq, none of the above apply. With the yellowcake story, the Left has conceded that Hussein had the foundation of WMDs. Previously, they conceded that al-Qaida was probably the only Islamic terror group in the world that Hussein was not directly supporting. They’ve conceded that Hussein was shooting at U.S. forces who were merely enforcing the peace treaty. And they’ve conceded that Hussein and his sons were human monsters who were fully capable of using WMDs against the United States, as they did against their own people.

What the letter writers unwittingly have also revealed is, the Left simply didn’t, and doesn’t, care. If a 10 megaton warhead were headed toward Richmond from Baghdad, they might have found it in themselves to take action. Fortunately, America was blessed with a president who wasn’t going to wait for that.

As reviled as President Bush is today, I firmly believe that historians of the future will see him in a much clearer and better light.

And even if they don’t, at least they will still have an America about which to write history because of his stand.
CAREY MARTIN
Forest

The company you keep
There are many reasons why I won’t vote for Barack Obama. He has no experience, I don’t favor surrender in Iraq and in the war against terrorism, a further weakened military, nationalized health care, higher taxes, unsecured borders and unchecked immigration. I don’t like paying $4 a gallon for gasoline while the politicians prance and preen and act as if they can solve our energy problems with hot air and empty promises.

The energy solution will come from the company or entrepreneur (hopefully American) least fettered by bureaucrats and regulation. Yes, drill more and spend less!

While any one of the above reasons would disqualify a candidate they are not the main reason I will not vote for Obama. There are actually two more: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. I think that each is willing to destroy the country so they can keep power and use it to their advantage. Pelosi is wealthy mainly because of her husband’s money, and Reid has become wealthy from shady real estate dealings while a United States senator. They are both radicals, and I don’t trust them. They would run over President Obama as if he weren’t even there while at the same time daring him to use his veto power to stop them.

John McCain isn’t perfect, no one is; but he is more conservative than any of the Democrats. He has promised to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court and to continue the war against terrorism. He would certainly use his veto pen to stop Pelosi, Reid and the Democrats as they continue to weaken America.
GEORGE E. PETERS Jr.
Gladstone